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On Feb 23 12:35, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 02/23/2010 12:01 PM, Jukka Inkeri wrote:
> >If your server is member of domain, howto make users, sshd, (which
> >order) ... without setuid problem when using publickey auth ? cyg_server
> >and sshd - domain user or local or both, ???
> 
> In order for the SSH server to switch user context to a domain user,
> the service's user (cyg_server) must be a domain user with the rights
> outlined in 'ssh-host-config'.  I'm not sure if it's a requirement that
> the 'sshd' user also be a domain user.  I've never played with that.

I added a FAQ entry lately:

 http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.sshd-in-domain


Corinna

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