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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 13:35:40 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: User context switch in sshd using RSAAuthentication
Message-ID: <20011206133540.F740@cygbert.vinschen.de>
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In-Reply-To: <E16Bwha-0008Oe-00@smtp.web.de>; from u.jakobus@web.de on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:26:28PM +0200

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:26:28PM +0200, Ulrich Jakobus wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am running a CVS server on a Win2K machine connecting through
> SSH, where sshd is a standard installation of CYGWIN (i.e running
> under the SYSTEM account as configured by the ssh-config-host 
> script).

A Cygwin CVS or a native CVS?  If it's a native CVS, the
below message that auther is SYSTEM would be ok.  Changing
the user context w/o password uncovers a flaw in NT user name
handling.  Cygwin just workarounds that.

> However, when using the ~/.ssh/authorizedkeys file then CVS also
> works, no error messages. But the CVS log files contain
>   date	2001.12.06.10.33.09;	author SYSTEM;	state Exp;
> i.e. the user SYSTEM appears here.

Corinna

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