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Re: Patch for openssh : allow to use AuthorizedKeysCommand on sshd on cygwin
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 20:25:20 +0200
- Subject: Re: Patch for openssh : allow to use AuthorizedKeysCommand on sshd on cygwin
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <084EF63F-381C-46B2-A644-4BCA9B599234@souchay.net> <20170731201228.GF18950@calimero.vinschen.de> <BCE73C40-C4B3-4D40-87B0-566CD407F213@souchay.net>
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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