X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44C5909E.4050905@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:31:42 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Adding users to /etc/passwd for ssh purposes, but not as a local Windows user References: <20060725020921 DOT 2296 DOT qmail AT web56806 DOT mail DOT re3 DOT yahoo DOT com> In-Reply-To: <20060725020921.2296.qmail@web56806.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Keith Christian wrote: > 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? Why not just give it a whirl. Then you can tell us. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/