X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:38:01 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: how to windows login from shell Message-ID: <20090701093801.GW30864@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4A4AF0C2.8020405@renona-studios.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A4AF0C2.8020405@renona-studios.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Jul 1 07:14, Andrwe Lord Weber wrote: > Hi, > > is there a function to login as a user from the cygwin bash-shell? > > The reason I'm asking is I want to connect to M$ XP using ssh public key > authentication. > The connection itself is working fine but I can't use shares because of > missing rights. > I figured out that the login process isn't a real Windows login if you > use a public key authentication so you don't have exactly the right the > normal user has. > After some research I found some mails in mailing lists talking about > this problem but there was just the solution to use net use > \\computer\share /USER:user password > to get a share but this possibility doesn't work for me. > That is why I got the idea to start a script, program or something like > that after the user authenticated itself which authenticates the user to > Windows. > Therefore I was hoping that cygwin already has a function to > authenticate a user. Maybe Cygwin 1.7 has what you're looking for: http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple