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Re: SSHD pubkey authentication
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: SSHD pubkey authentication
- From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 15:16:57 +0200
- References: <3AEEC95D.43BE585E@lapo.it>
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 04:34:05PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> > The reason is the restriction for changing user context on NT/W2K.
> > You can do this only by providing the password of that user, even
> > if the process is running under LocalSystem account.
> >
> But then how can IIS authenticate (in https) using only private key?
>
> Of course they have some special access to some special not documented
> API to change active user?
No, they are using a so-called "subauthentication package". I'm just
preparing one for Cygwin but the information which are provided by
Microsoft are very spare. However, we will be able to login to a
system without a password in future but with substantial constraints,
probably. A logon without password will not be able to connect to network
drives unless somebody can show me how to solve that problem.
Corinna
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