[1.7] Do the new security enhancements allow ssh under your own $USERNAME

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov  5 14:43, aputerguy wrote:
> 
> I read the materials in "What's New" and the section "Windows Security in
> Cygwin" with interest since it describes new authentication potentials.
> 
> However, I did not understand the material well enough to know whether 1.7
> will allow users to ssh under their own $USERNAME or whether you will always
> get USERNAME=SYSTEM (assuming that you started sshd normally with
> cygrunsrv).

Apparently you didn't read
http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview
close enough.  It's all there.


Corinna

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