Re: Run OpenSSH service with Local System Account

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Nov 20 15:37, William Zhang wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Sorry i hit the send button by mistake before I finished the last
> mail. This is my
> full question.
> 
> I am wondering if there is a way to run the Cygwin OpenSSH service as
> Local System Account in Windows 2003 and 2008 instead of the
> cyg_server account created during the setup.   I am using
> Cygwin+OpenSSH on the Windows test server and I remotely execute
> automation testing script from a linux box. However the program

This won't work.  The reason why you can't use the LocalSystem account
to run sshd (*and* get pubkey authentication) is not a Cygwin
restriction, but a Windows restriction.  With Windows 2008 this works
even worse because the "Interact with desktop" has been officially
deprecated for security reasons.  It's still available in the services
GUI but it doesn't work as on earlier systems.

There are probably other workarounds for your problem.  What exactly
are you testing?  Why do you need interaction with the desktop, even
though you're doing automated script testing?

For instance, the official workaround as propagated by Microsoft is to
start the application by the user account running the desktop session
and to use IPC mechanisms (named pipes, sockets) to communicate between
the service and the desktop application.


Corinna

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