Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:55:16 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: SSHD key based authentication hangs cscript Message-ID: <20050504095516.GL31567@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <200505040116.j441GuC02021@webmail.pulsemining.com.au> <20050504090241.GE31567@calimero.vinschen.de> <42789AC1.4FA1F6AB@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42789AC1.4FA1F6AB@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On May 4 02:49, Brian Dessent wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Nothing wrong with that, but since this happens > > in user land and not within a registered Windows authentication package, > > there's a problem here. The new sub process still runs in the authenticated > > Is that what the old 'subautha' thing was aiming at? To be able to > issue a real SID? (I know that it's dead and gone now, but I was > curious.) Yes, that was the original idea. But it had two drawbacks, it had to be installed into the WINDOWS/system32 path plus adding a registry key and ob-reboot, and it only worked well on 2K but not on NT4, AFAIR (No XP on the horizon back then). I'm in the progress of beginning to think of starting to plan to create a real authentication package for Cygwin... for about three or four years now. The frustrating lack of example code from Microsoft and the Net holds me back :-( Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/