X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4C080067.8090208@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:20:07 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Different user environment for key vs password authentication References: <4C06DC4D DOT 7040005 AT cygwin DOT com> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 6/3/2010 2:56 PM, jaynnas AT us DOT ibm DOT com wrote: > To make sure I'm understanding the implication of your response, let me > summarize... > > According to the link you sent, the different user environment is > resulting not because of something that the ssh server (or cygwin) is > doing/configured to do but because of how Windows handles remote log-ins > with password or key authentication. In order to deal with this fact > regarding key authentication, I must consider to use some of the > approaches suggested in the document to switch the user context. Is this > an accurate summary? Yep, that's what I'd recommend. In the worst case, method 3 should be roughly equivalent to using a password and therefore give you the same results. YMMV. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple