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Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:42:57 +0300
From: Michael Spector <michael AT zend DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: difference in permissions, using two SSH authentication methods:     public key/password
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On 15:32, Wed 10 Aug 05, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Michael Spector wrote:
> 
> > May be this question is not for this maillist, so please excuse me:
> > 
> > Is there a way of disabling this NTSEC security mechanism?
> > I mean: is there a way of accessing shared disks without logging in with password?
> > 
> > I tried setting CYGWIN=nontsec, but the situation is the same.
> 
> As Corinna already said, you will need to provide the password one way
> or another for network share authentication.  You can do this by giving
> it directly to 'net use', or you can run the sshd service as the desired
> user.  In this case you will give the password for the user when
> installing the service, and there will be no user context switching
> necessary.  The token for the service will already contain the password,
> so it should be possible to access network shares using passwordless ssh
> auth.  The downside is that you will only ever be able to log in as that
> user.  (Both because regular user accounts lack the privileges to switch
> user contexts and because doing so would just result in the same problem
> of a token lacking a password.)
> 

Thanks to all!

-- 
Best regards,

Michael

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