X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A4B39CE.7060607@renona-studios.org> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:26:22 +0200 From: Andrwe Lord Weber User-Agent: Spicebird/0.7.1 (Windows; 2009031117) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: how to windows login from shell References: <4A4AF0C2.8020405@renona-studios.org> <20090701093801.GW30864@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20090701093801.GW30864@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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 Thank you Corinna, it seems exactly to be what I'm looking for. I'll test it. Andrwe -- 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