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Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 13 11:20, Charles Wilson wrote >> This is bad. Suppose I am a cygwin user on a machine to which I do not >> have Administrator privileges. Until now, I could run a personal sshd >> on a unique port, and connect back to my windows box. Now I can't -- >> because, as a non-Admin, I can't create the sshd user. (and this use >> case is not a hypothetical; I do this on the job often) > > You can create a fake sshd account in /etc/passwd, using your own account. > Other than that, I agree. It's not exactly a nice change. Okay, that's good to know -- we have a workaround for cygwin (assuming I have write-access to /etc/passwd...) I still think this could cause issues for non-priveleged uses on other platforms, tho. But that's a topic for another list. -- Chuck -- 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/
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