Re: Unable ssh login using Windows Domain account using password autheationntic

On Feb 22 12:51, Perdue, Dave T.  CIV NAVAIR 5.4.3, Bldg 2035, Rm 205, Cube 200 wrote:
> We are currently using Cygwin 1.5.12-1 on our Windows 2000 Domain as
> the ssh server for our PCs.  1.5.12-1 ssh allows us to log into the
> domain PCs remotely using our domain accounts.  I installed Cygwin
> 1.5.19-4 on one system and find that when I remotely log in using a
> domain account the native Windows "whoami" command reports my identity
> as "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM".

That's normal for public key authentication (as noted on this list
zillions of times) and it's a bug in case of password authentication,
which is supposed to be fixed in recent developer snapshots (download
from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/) and eventually in 1.5.20.


Corinna

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