Re: Still confused about cyg_server vs. user id when logging in via ssh

[Anthony Geoghegan <anthony dot geoghegan at gmail dot com>]

>> My bottom line question is whether there is any way to login via SSH
>> and to get a shell with true ADMINISTRATOR privileges so that there is
>> no difference between a SSH log in and a local login... at a minimum
>> is there any way to get subinacl to work right.
>
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-logonuser

I spent ages wrestling with similar issues. I found running `mkpasswd
-c` a useful way to see which Windows user I'm logged in as. It took a
lot of experimentation to realise that I was only logged in with the
permissions of my Windows user if I disabled SSH keys and used my
account password to authenticate. After much research, I found all the
relevant answers in the documentation that Corinna linked to - though
I had to read it twice to fully understand it (I've only recently
started to learn about Windows' authentication and security
processes).

Regards,
Anthony Geoghegan

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