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From: Pierre Souchay <pierre@souchay.net>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Patch for openssh : allow to use AuthorizedKeysCommand on sshd on cygwin
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 20:53:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DA86F914-9685-4306-AFD2-2ACAF5254AB0@souchay.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgn3kuwf.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

Hello,

> On 1 Aug 2017, at 20:25, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Well I am fine with that.

Practically speaking, the feature cannot work as it is right now, since nobody has uid=0 - so does not work on Cygwin.

In our infrastructure, all of Cygwin is installed as SYSTEM (uid=18), thus my patch (We are currently using a quite old version of Cygwin).

I am quite open to suggestions and would be glad to fix it the way you want.

Best Regards

Pierre Souchay

> 
> 
> Regards,
> Achim.
> -- 
> +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+

      reply	other threads:[~2017-08-01 20:53 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
2017-08-01 20:53       ` Pierre Souchay [this message]

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