RE: SSHD key based authentication hangs cscript

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 5 May 2005, Stuart Westbury wrote:

> Thanks for the prompt response Corinna.
>
> At least I now know.
>
> Can anybody suggest a way of doing this? Can the runas service be used
> to gain a new token or will it suffer the same problem? I have attempted
> to use it, but the results were unusual. It prompted me for a password
> and just drops me back to the shell without the opportunity to even
> enter one.
>
> On a similar note, can anyone who may have had this issue suggest any
> alternative way to run remote commands on a windows box from linux with
> some form of transparent authentication, or am I dreaming? :)

Well, if you only ever log in as one user, you can run sshd as that
particular user (maybe on a special port if you need a regular sshd daemon
as well).  That way, even if public key auth is used, the token will be
valid.  See the --user option to cygrunsrv.

If you need multiple users to log in, you can try to get runas to prompt
you for a password properly, but that may be tricky.  Try playing with the
"tty" value in the CYGWIN variable (see
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>).
HTH,
	Igor

> [snip]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@XXXXXX.XXX [mailto:cygwin-owner@XXXXXX.XXX] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen
> Sent: Wednesday, 4 May 2005 7:03 PM
> To: cygwin@XXXXXX.XXX
> Subject: Re: SSHD key based authentication hangs cscript

Oh, and <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> On May  4 11:15, Stuart Westbury wrote:
> > "There are actually two problems here: 1) a problem with CygWin/OpenSSH
> > (after  public  key  authentication  GetUserName()  returns  incorrect
> > value)..........."
> >
> > Is this my problem?
>
> No, that's our problem.  There's nothing we can do about it, I'm sorry.
> [snip]

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