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Subject: Re: ssh session w/reduced credentials;whoami shows OurSrvr064\sshd_server
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On Jan 31 10:32, Tom Rodman wrote:
> Also notable, was that whoami shown: "OurSrvr064\sshd_server", instead of
> "staffuser2".

That's normal for passwordless login.  Changing the user credentials the
way passwordless login does, is not fully recognized by Windows, even
your SID seems to belong to the user which made the context switch.
There's no known way around this.  http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC


Corinna

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