Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:53:06 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: SSHD pubkey authentication Message-ID: <20010424145306.H31606@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3AE56537.42ABD5EB@lapo.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AE56537.42ABD5EB@lapo.it>; from lapo@lapo.it on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:36:23PM +0200 On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:36:23PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: > It is possible to use pubkey authentication on NT? > I played a lot with ntsec,nontsec,ntea,nontea starting serrvice as > SYSTEM or as administrator > > Result is that the SYSTEM user can't access > /home/*/.ssh/authorized_keys[2] no matter the modes or owners, only way > to use pubkey auth is to start the service as the user that wants to > connect, not a real solution.. > > As anyone got better? The reason is the restriction for changing user context on NT/W2K. You can do this only by providing the password of that user, even if the process is running under LocalSystem account. > I mean using the OpenSSH distro available now. I don't understand what you try to say with that sentence. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple