X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:35:52 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Thorsten Kampe cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: using sshd as a non-administrator: minor issues and an aliasing question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <6989476 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * eyalroz (Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:18:26 -0700 (PDT)) > > > 3. How do I add new username/password combinations other than my real > > NT username and password? I want the sshd to only accept > > myalias/tehfauxpass instead of myrealuser/therealpass , and of course > > not try to switch users to myalias but rather allow work as > > myrealuser. > > Can't be done in my opinion as /etc/passwd is just a wrapper to the > SAM where the real password hashes are stored. Well, technically, if you omit the SID from the passwd entry, Cygwin may use the crypt'ed password in the second field, but the resulting user token would be pretty useless, as it will bear no relation to the real Windows user... Corinna will probably have more to say on this... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu | igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/