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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
