A quick question regarding a recent commit

Andrew Schulman schulman.andrew@epamail.epa.gov
Wed Oct 19 13:59:00 GMT 2011


> You recently applied a patch to the Cygwin tree regarding Windows
> permissions when logging in via SSH with PubKey authentication (see
> the link below). Another user in the thread confirmed it worked in
> the latest snapshot. I download the latest cygwin-inst tar ball and
> replaced the existing installed files on a machine that is suffering
> from the same issue (with the ones from the archive). After rebooting
> the machine the issue still persisted though :-( (trying to install
> an MSI as administrator, works with password auth, not with pub key).

Please log in with pubkey and run 

  /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/whoami /all

Then post the results here.  That will show which privileges your account
has, and whether they're enabled.


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