May be here a reply that I got from the CVSNT list on this issue (claiming that this is a problem of Cygwin/sshd):
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:45:36 -0800, Terris wrote: >Are you using SSH password authentication or SSH public key authentication? > >cygwin's openssh server has a bug whereby if you use public key >authentication, the user is the user's that's running the sshd daemon rather >than the remote user. The cygwin folks claim it's due to a problem with NT, >(funny how that's always the fall-back position for programmers) >but it's actually a problem with their understanding of NT. They need to >look at the CVSNT 1.11.1.2 pserver code. > >If you really have to use public key authentication, use >VanDyke's vshell. http://vandyke.com Bye, Ulrich >On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 13:35:40 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> >>On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:26:28PM +0200, Ulrich Jakobus wrote: >>> Hello, >>> > I am running a CVS server on a Win2K machine connecting through >>> SSH, where sshd is a standard installation of CYGWIN (i.e running >>> under the SYSTEM account as configured by the ssh-config-host >>> script). >> >>A Cygwin CVS or a native CVS? If it's a native CVS, the >>below message that auther is SYSTEM would be ok. Changing >>the user context w/o password uncovers a flaw in NT user name >>handling. Cygwin just workarounds that. >> >>> However, when using the ~/.ssh/authorizedkeys file then CVS also >>> works, no error messages. But the CVS log files contain >>> date 2001.12.06.10.33.09; author SYSTEM; state Exp; >>> i.e. the user SYSTEM appears here. >> >>Corinna > > > > > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
