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: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:42:57 +0300 From: Michael Spector To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: difference in permissions, using two SSH authentication methods: public key/password Message-ID: <20050811064257.GA10977@gibraltar.zend.office> References: <20050810113433.GA20506@mail.zend.com> <42F9ED84.A0B53889@dessent.net> <20050810143156.GA18482@mail.zend.com> <42FA807F.3B0A4F78@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42FA807F.3B0A4F78@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-IsSubscribed: yes On 15:32, Wed 10 Aug 05, Brian Dessent wrote: > Michael Spector wrote: > > > May be this question is not for this maillist, so please excuse me: > > > > Is there a way of disabling this NTSEC security mechanism? > > I mean: is there a way of accessing shared disks without logging in with password? > > > > I tried setting CYGWIN=nontsec, but the situation is the same. > > As Corinna already said, you will need to provide the password one way > or another for network share authentication. You can do this by giving > it directly to 'net use', or you can run the sshd service as the desired > user. In this case you will give the password for the user when > installing the service, and there will be no user context switching > necessary. The token for the service will already contain the password, > so it should be possible to access network shares using passwordless ssh > auth. The downside is that you will only ever be able to log in as that > user. (Both because regular user accounts lack the privileges to switch > user contexts and because doing so would just result in the same problem > of a token lacking a password.) > Thanks to all! -- Best regards, Michael -- 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/