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From: "Andrew Louie" <louiea@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: OT observation: displaying share perms while in an ssh session
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On 12/20/06, Tom Rodman <cygzx <at> trodman.com> wrote:
> Thought this was interesting. My theory: if your in a cygwin
> *password* *authenticated* ssh session, and you try to get a reporting
> of the permissions for a network share, that the report will fail,
> unless SYSTEM has read rights on the share.

Are you talking about having an SSH daemon running through cygwin on a
windows computer, then accessing that computer through ssh, and trying
to read network shares off of it?

You have to change the SSH daemon to run as a user of the domain so
that it can read network shares properly, this guide is a big help:

http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~kscully/CygwinSSHD_W2K3.html



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-Andrew Louie

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