X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:26:54 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sshd password authentication results in identity of NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM Message-ID: <20060131092654.GR15572@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Jan 30 12:57, Perdue, Dave T. CIV NAVAIR 5.4.3, Bldg 2035, Rm 205, Cube 200 wrote: > The Cygwin "whoami" command reports the correct username, > however the Window Resource kit "whoami.exe" reports "NT > Authority\SYSTEM" for the username when using a password > authenticated ssh login. The user's SID is identical, just the > username is different. I have read responses in the Cygwin mail > lists that indicated that RSA authenticated logins should act > this way (no access to network shares due to incomplete user > impersonation) however it also indicated that password > authentication should provide network share access. A minimal > installation of Cygwin to support ssh (Cygwin with cygrunsrv and > openssh) shows proper user context switching for Cygwin-1.5.12-1 > but fails using Cygwin-1.5.19-4. I do not have access to > versions 13-17 so I cannot determine at what point full support > of password authentication "broke". I don't know what's wrong on your machine, but I tried on two different machines under Windows 2000 and under XP, and the user context switch works as expected in both cases; a native whoami returns SYSTEM for a password-less login and the user name for a password login. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/