ssh shell's mount table differs from normal shell's

Larry Hall cygwin-lh@cygwin.com
Mon Sep 29 21:46:00 GMT 2003


At 04:02 PM 9/29/2003, Larry Hall you wrote:
>Matt,
>
>I'll let you look this one up if you're interested in the previous 
>discussions and details on this subject.  
>
>This is the same old "problem" with ssh that everyone has if they don't 
>authenticate with Windows (and enter their password).  If you don't use 
>password authentication with ssh, Windows doesn't know you as the user you 
>say you are so it won't show you shares for that user.
>
>Don't forget about the email archives when you have a question.  I little 

                                                                 ^^^
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>time looking there can answer allot of questions.
>
>Larry
>
>
>At 02:21 PM 9/29/2003, Matt Swift you wrote:
>
>>I do not understand why the Cygwin mount table should be different in
>>the bash shell that I launch with cygwin.bat or rxvt.exe than the
>>mount table I get when I ssh to the host with the same user.  The
>>shell transcript below illustrates the difference.  The Windows drives
>>H: and S:, which are missing from the mount table in the ssh shell,
>>happen to be remote resources, while the other lettered mounts are
>>physical drives.  But if that were the pattern, the /usr/local/share
>>mount would also be absent in the ssh shell.
>>
>>    [vav] swift> hostname; uname -a
>>    vav
>>    CYGWIN_NT-5.1 vav 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
>>
>>    [vav] swift> id
>>    uid=500(swift) gid=544(Administrators) groups=513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users),547(Power Users),551(Backup Operators),555(Remote Desktop Users),556(Network Configuration Operators),1011(Debugger Users)
>>
>>    [vav] swift> ssh vav id
>>    uid=500(swift) gid=544(Administrators) groups=513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users),547(Power Users),551(Backup Operators),555(Remote Desktop Users),556(Network Configuration Operators),1011(Debugger Users)
>>
>>    [vav] swift> mount
>>    C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode)
>>    C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
>>    C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
>>    \\beth\share on /usr/local/share type system (binmode)
>>    C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
>>    c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
>>    h: on /cygdrive/h type user (binmode,noumount)
>>    s: on /cygdrive/s type user (binmode,noumount)
>>    u: on /cygdrive/u type user (binmode,noumount)
>>    v: on /cygdrive/v type user (binmode,noumount)
>>    w: on /cygdrive/w type user (binmode,noumount)
>>    y: on /cygdrive/y type user (binmode,noumount)
>>
>>    [vav] swift> ssh vav mount
>>    C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode)
>>    C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
>>    C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
>>    \\beth\share on /usr/local/share type system (binmode)
>>    C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
>>    c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
>>    u: on /cygdrive/u type user (binmode,noumount)
>>    v: on /cygdrive/v type user (binmode,noumount)
>>    w: on /cygdrive/w type user (binmode,noumount)
>>    y: on /cygdrive/y type user (binmode,noumount)
>>
>>    [vav] swift> cat ~/.ssh/config
>>    # man ssh_config
>>
>>    Host beth
>>    HostKeyAlias beth
>>    Host beth.swift.xxx
>>    HostKeyAlias beth
>>
>>    Host vav
>>    HostKeyAlias vav
>>    Host vav.swift.xxx
>>    HostKeyAlias vav
>>
>>    Host mercury
>>    HostKeyAlias mercury
>>    Host mercury.swift.xxx
>>    HostKeyAlias mercury
>>
>>    # No strict checking for computers that are likely to move around.
>>
>>    Host luna
>>    HostKeyAlias luna
>>    StrictHostKeyChecking no
>>    CheckHostIP no
>>    Host luna.swift.xxx
>>    HostKeyAlias luna
>>    StrictHostKeyChecking no
>>    CheckHostIP no
>>
>>    Host zayin
>>    HostKeyAlias zayin
>>    StrictHostKeyChecking no
>>    CheckHostIP no
>>    Host zayin.swift.xxx
>>    HostKeyAlias zayin
>>    StrictHostKeyChecking no
>>    CheckHostIP no
>>
>>    Host subversions.gnu.org
>>    CheckHostIP no
>>    Protocol 1
>>
>>
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