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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject:  Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa
Date:  Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:39:18 -0700
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>> To me it's just not natural to think of having ntsec without 
>> smbntsec. I forget what, if any, issues might have been involved. I 
>> can't think of a situation where you'd want Cygwin to honor ntsec but 
>> not honor smbntsec...
>
> When the SMB server doesn't reflect the permissions correctly, 

IMHO then that problem should be corrected.

> or when the owner user on the remote end isn't accessible via Windows 
> (e.g., mounting a DFS filesystem via SMB).

How often does that happen?
-- 
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.


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