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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:09:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Keith Christian <keithchristian AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Adding users to /etc/passwd for ssh purposes, but not as a local Windows user
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Suppose a Windows 2000/XP/2003 machine exists where three accounts need to be
added for use only with SSH to a Unix/Linux machine, for ssh/scp/sftp use.

Further suppose these user accounts are to be named ssh_user_a, ssh_user_b,
and ssh_user_c, and that these should exist only in Cygwin's /etc/passwd file
- they won't be added as local Windows users.

My question is whether these users can be added only to Cygwin's /etc/passwd
file so that passwordless logins can be achieved, using .ssh/authorized_keys.

Possible?

Thanks,

==========Keith

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