Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I've found that in life if you don't completely solve a problem you tend > to come back upon it until you do. Dredging up an old issue > (http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00553.html) of which Corinna > commented here: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00644.html > but it was what Igor said in > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg00080.html that really got me > thinking. > > From what I understand, if you wish to share a home directory via SMB > among a number of Windows machines then you will have problems with ssh > and permissions if you are attempting to use pre-shared ssh keys. By > using pre-shared ssh keys you are attempting to allow passwordless ssh > login - secure ssh login but passwordless nonetheless. As such, when you > log into the Windows machine you will not have access to your SMB home > directory, since as Igor says "trying to access network shares from a > session you did with passwordless authentication"... is "not gonna > work". As I understand it, when no password is supplied then no password > is available to give Windows in order to authenticate access to the SMB > share. So, during the attempt to authenticate the pre-shared key, the > sshd process cannot access the user's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. So then it > eventually has to prompt for the password. But even worse, after giving > the password you still have no access to your home directory. > > Although Cygwin 1.7 may offer some hope: > > Cygwin now allows storage and use of user passwords in a hidden area > of the registry. This is tried first when Cygwin is called by > privileged processes to switch the user context. This allows, for > instance, ssh public key sessions with full network credentials to > access shares on other machines. > > my client isn't able to use Cygwin 1.7 yet. > > So to recap: I'd like to provide pre-shared key ssh access to a > particular username. I cannot, however, use an SMB shared home directory > for that user without encountering problems with ssh and permissions. > > If the above statement is not true and you have any ideas on how to > achieve these objectives then let me know. > Anybody care to comment or at least acknowledge this issue? -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> If electricity comes from electrons, where does morality come from?
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