On Oct 29 15:35, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > * eyalroz (Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:18:26 -0700 (PDT)) > > > > > 3. How do I add new username/password combinations other than my real > > > NT username and password? I want the sshd to only accept > > > myalias/tehfauxpass instead of myrealuser/therealpass , and of course > > > not try to switch users to myalias but rather allow work as > > > myrealuser. > > > > Can't be done in my opinion as /etc/passwd is just a wrapper to the > > SAM where the real password hashes are stored. > > Well, technically, if you omit the SID from the passwd entry, Cygwin may > use the crypt'ed password in the second field, but the resulting user > token would be pretty useless, as it will bear no relation to the real > Windows user... Corinna will probably have more to say on this...
Not really. Thorsten is correct. Cygwin, the DLL, never uses the passwd field. The crypt library does. I don't understand the sense behind the the above approach anyway. Security by obscurity? Why not use pubkey authentication with passphrase instead? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
