CYGWIN - As admin setup other users SSH for them?

[Warren Young]

On 6/10/2014 21:04, Roger Vicker, CCP wrote:
>
>> In that case, why not just replicate the effect of "ssh-copy-id"
>>
> 1) The point of using keys is to eliminate password login (there are
> other layers involved elsewhere).
> 2) Even if I "temporarily" enabled password login I would need the
> user's password to this network.
> 3) The usual "after necessary sharing a password" changing of it upsets
> the user as the periodic change is always "too frequent".

So make the Android client generate a key pair on first launch, then 
until it successfully uses the key to log in, ask for the user's 
password and use that instead.  Thereafter, use the key exclusively.

Windows doesn't readily offer a "su" or "sudo" like mechanism.  There 
are ways[1] to arm-twist Windows into offering something like it, but 
it's a lot of work to go through to achieve your preconceived solution 
to the problem.


[1] https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-nopasswd1

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