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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:23:39 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Publickey Authentication for a domain account
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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

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