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Re: SSHD user-switching under Cygwin/XP (was Re: Case insensitivity ad n
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David Wood |
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Re: SSHD user-switching under Cygwin/XP (was Re: Case insensitivity ad nauseum) |
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Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:20:40 -0500 |
Now I'm really out on a limb, but, what user is sshd running as before it
switches? Does logging into sshd without a password, using a key instead,
merely mean that no switch from this "default sshd user" occurs? If that's
the case, can we adjust the "default user" that sshd runs as?
address@hidden wrote on 12/10/2003
02:09:17 PM:
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> Nathan Kidd wrote:
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> > Derek Robert Price wrote:
> >
> >>> I didn't carefully read over this whole list of permutations, but at
> >>> first glance, perhaps it's just the domain for oberon that's
missing?
> >>>
> >>> e.g.
> >>>
> >>> net use z: \\empress\oberon /user:empress\oberon <password>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Yep. That's it, I just also have to login using a password rather
than
> >>> my private/public key pair.
> >>
> >>
> >> As I revisit this, I note however, that this is not sufficient. I'm
> >> trying to set up automated testing, so I couldn't enter the password
if
> >> I wanted to - even saving to a file and attempting to echo it to ssh
> >> doesn't work because ssh grabs the TTY to get the password. I really
> >> need to use public key authentication, but this prevents SSHD from
> >> grabbing the Windows authentication tokens.
> >>
> >> I think maybe this is a Windows (combined with SSHD?) limitation that
I
> >> cannot get any access to network resources without authenticating
with a
> >> password?
> >
> >
> > I don't know if this helps in your situation, but if you are always
> > testing from the same machine you could have a persistent connection
> > to some share on empress using oberon's password. Any subsequent
> > access to any share on empress will automatically use this
> > user/password without prompting for it. That is, it is sufficient to
> > simply run:
> > net use * \\empress\oberon
> >
> > But then if you do this you might as well make the original connection
> > you want as persistent and never even bother with "net use" in your
> > script.
> >
> > (On W2K, at least, it doesn't even seem possible to use a password
> > from STDIN.)
>
>
> That doesn't work. As near as I can tell now based on my experiments
> and reading, my problem is that I am attempting to launch the tests via
> an automated ssh connection from another computer. SSHD on Cygwin does
> user-switching, but only gets Windows auth tokens if you use your
> Windows password to login. Since I can't use a password with ssh from
> an automated script, I cannot get Windows auth tokens, and without
> Windows auth tokens, Windows won't let me see or mount, _any_ network
> share, not even a share that allows anonymous connections.
>
> Derek
>
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- Re: SSHD user-switching under Cygwin/XP (was Re: Case insensitivity ad nauseum), Max Bowsher, 2003/12/05
- Re: SSHD user-switching under Cygwin/XP (was Re: Case insensitivity ad nauseum), Derek Robert Price, 2003/12/05
- Re: SSHD user-switching under Cygwin/XP (was Re: Case insensitivity ad nauseum), Nathan Kidd, 2003/12/05
- Re: SSHD user-switching under Cygwin/XP (was Re: Case insensitivity ad nauseum), Derek Robert Price, 2003/12/10
- Re: SSHD user-switching under Cygwin/XP (was Re: Case insensitivity ad nauseum), Derek Robert Price, 2003/12/10
- Re: SSHD user-switching under Cygwin/XP (was Re: Case insensitivity ad nauseum), Nathan Kidd, 2003/12/10
- Re: SSHD user-switching under Cygwin/XP (was Re: Case insensitivity ad nauseum), Derek Robert Price, 2003/12/10
- Re: SSHD user-switching under Cygwin/XP (was Re: Case insensitivity ad nauseum),
David Wood <=
- Re: SSHD user-switching under Cygwin/XP (was Re: Case insensitivity ad nauseum), Derek Robert Price, 2003/12/10
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