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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Patch for openssh : allow to use AuthorizedKeysCommand on sshd on cygwin
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 18:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgn3kuwf.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BCE73C40-C4B3-4D40-87B0-566CD407F213@souchay.net> (Pierre	Souchay's message of "Mon, 31 Jul 2017 23:07:37 +0200")

Pierre Souchay writes:
> (The issue being that root on CYGWIN is not uid=0 but uid=18 aka
> SYSTEM)

This is a misconception.  There is no root user on Windows and
consequently there is none on Cygwin.  There are multiple possibilities
of what could be usefully considered a proxy for root, so it's
inappropriate to hard-code some other SID instead.


Regards,
Achim.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-01 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-31 18:38 Pierre Souchay
2017-07-31 20:12 ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-07-31 21:07   ` Pierre Souchay
2017-08-01  8:54     ` Corinna Vinschen
2017-08-01 18:25     ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2017-08-01 20:53       ` Pierre Souchay

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