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Re: how to windows login from shell
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:38:01 +0200
- Subject: Re: how to windows login from shell
- References: <4A4AF0C2.8020405@renona-studios.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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
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