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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:31:59 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: logon as a service
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On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 02:34:10PM -0800, Karl M wrote:
> Hi All...
> 
> The service is specific to a single user. I want to launch a ssh-agent for 
> the user at system start time, so that it can hold the keys for the user 
> even during logoff. It works fine on Windows-2000 Professional.
> 
> If I run the service as SYSTEM, how do I start a process for a particular 
> user?

Dunno.  Switching user context would help.  Write a program which
switches to that user (setgid/setuid) then forks and exec's ssh-agent.

Corinna

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