On Aug 22 10:43, Shawn Marriott wrote: > > Howdy, > > Is there any way to do Publickey Authentication for a domain account > with Cygwins port of OpenSSH? > > The situation I am in is as such; > > There is a website that allows users to re/set their passwords > provide they answer some questions. > The users new plaintext password is stored in file and transfered > off the webserver using scp > A domain controller receives the file, and sets the users password > to the new one. > > Currently a Username/Password pair is used to authenticate scp from the > webserver to the domain controller, > we would like to use Username/Publickey pair to authenticate. > > My preliminary reading suggests that this may not be possible. > Is this the case?
It is possible, provided the user has an entry in the local /etc/passwd and the home directory in the local /etc/passwd is set to a local dir. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
