Thanks . I have tests as you suggest , so long as the user does not have admin privileges.
The problem I have is most users have local admin rites on their machines. Which make it difficult to secure . G On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Andrew DeFaria <and...@defaria.com> wrote: > On 05/01/2012 09:01 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: >> >> Hi. >> I’m new to Cygwin. >> >> Our users are required to use Active Directory authentication for >> sending email , via our exchange server, this is fine for Outlook and >> Thunderbird, but not for scripts that run under Cygwin. I configured >> sSMTP for a user to use , the issues with this is that the >> configuration is in clear text and is visible to all users on the >> machine. > > No it's visible to all users who have been given read permission to the > file. You can chmod 600 the file I believe. I know that unless the snooper > has admin rights they will be limited by their UID and GID. Not sure if a > plain Windows user logging in can gain access to the file though. > >> >> Thus my questions is howto configure the Cygwin environment to use >> the user’s authentication tokens to send email via Exchange , or in a >> way that the users authentication details are not exposed. >> >> Thanks >> >> Greg >> > > > -- > Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> > If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold > tomorrow, how cold is it going to be? > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
