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On Jul  1 07:14, Andrwe Lord Weber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a function to login as a user from the cygwin bash-shell?
>
> The reason I'm asking is I want to connect to M$ XP using ssh public key  
> authentication.
> The connection itself is working fine but I can't use shares because of  
> missing rights.
> I figured out that the login process isn't a real Windows login if you  
> use a public key authentication so you don't have exactly the right the  
> normal user has.
> After some research I found some mails in mailing lists talking about  
> this problem but there was just the solution to use net use  
> \\computer\share /USER:user password
> to get a share but this possibility doesn't work for me.
> That is why I got the idea to start a script, program or something like  
> that after the user authenticated itself which authenticates the user to  
> Windows.
> Therefore I was hoping that cygwin already has a function to  
> authenticate a user.

Maybe Cygwin 1.7 has what you're looking for:

http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview


Corinna

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