Sorry for starting a new thread w/ the reply, forgot to subscribe before posting my question yesterday...
Thanks for getting back so quickly Yes, I have read that page pretty much from top to bottom, and as far as I know I have configured sshd and the user accounts correctly. I have a non-privileged, disabled account named "sshd", as well as a privileged account called "cyg_server". Privilege separation seems to be working fine - i.e. when the request for a connection comes in the process is running as "sshd", then it spawns a privileged process running as "cyg_server" once the user is authenticated. However no I am not logging in with a password; I have setup public key authentication. And the user I'm being connected as (as seen from the file share server) is not the "sshd" user account, it is the privileged "cyg_server" user account. Although that account has no rights to logon interactively or thru Terminal Services, it is a privileged account on the file server (because the file server is also running CYGWIN and thus must allow privileged rights to that account as well). I should clarify that in my case, cyg_server is a domain account (not a local account). And the way I can verify, is that I have a folder on that share that the user I am authenicating as does not have rights do view, but cyg_server does (because Administrators on that server do), and when I connect as my user via SSHD to any one of my other machines on the domain running CYGWIN, I can then navigate to and read the contents of that file share when I shouldn't be able to. If I try to do the same thing, from the same account, but on my machine locally without connecting to any other CYGWIN SSH server, I get a "Permission denied", which is what I would expect. Thank you for your help on this. David ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- Did you read https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html, configured sshd and the user accounts correctly and are logging in with a password using either of the methods described? FWIW, I'm seeing the connected user as the one that I logged into via ssh. In fact the sshd user account doesn't have any network access rights anyway, so I couldn't connect to any network share if that acount would be used. Regards, Achim. -- 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
