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Re: SSHD pubkey authentication
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: SSHD pubkey authentication
- From: Lapo Luchini <lapo at lapo dot it>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 16:34:05 +0200
> The reason is the restriction for changing user context on NT/W2K.
> You can do this only by providing the password of that user, even
> if the process is running under LocalSystem account.
>
But then how can IIS authenticate (in https) using only private key?
Of course they have some special access to some special not documented
API to change active user?
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