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From: Sam Edge <sam_edgeZZZ AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Login as a different user?
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:58:32 +0100
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You wrote in <3CC7916F DOT 6050001 AT elegant DOT nl>
in gmane.os.cygwin on Thu, 25 Apr 2002 07:17:35 +0200:

> I stumbled on this question too and foud out that using 'ssh -l <user> 
> localhost' in combination with keychain works just fine.

You don't even need keychain but of course you do need sshd running
with enough privileges to create processes under other accounts.

This is most easily done by running the sshd configuration script
(/usr/bin/ssh-host-config) from an administrative login and allowing
it to install sshd as an NT service.

However, this opens up more potential avenues for your system to be
accessed over the 'Net and you should consider using the ListenAddress
directive to limit access to localhost.

There's also a slight security risk just having any Cygwin process
running with enhanced privileges. See the thread "Getting Cygwin into
a corporation..." <01fd01c1ebba$23197580$0d76aec7 AT D4LHBR01>

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Sam Edge

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