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  48     dc:title="Cygwin, ssh, smb home directories"
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  51     dc:description="I knew I had approached this problem before and I had, back in 2006 for another client. Doing some research yields this and this but it&apos;s this that causes me to abandon this task. Specifically: Umm, Bruce, you aren&apos;t trying..."
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  58                      <h2 class="date-header">May  7, 2009</h2>
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  61                         <h3 class="entry-header">Cygwin, ssh, smb home directories</h3>
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  64                               <p>I knew I had approached this problem before and I had, back in 2006 for another client. Doing some research yields <a href="http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00553.html">this </a>and <a href="http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00644.html">this </a>but it's <a href="http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg00080.html">this </a>that causes me to abandon this task. Specifically: <blockquote>Umm, Bruce, you aren't trying to access network shares from
  65 a session you did with passwordless authentication, are you? Because if
  66 you are, it's not going to work (see &lt;<a linkindex="10"
  67  href="http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-RELEASE1.3.3">http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-RELEASE1.3.3</a>&gt;).<br>
  68 </blockquote>
  69 IIRC In Windows, if you log into Windows in a passwordless manner (i.e.
  70 using ssh and pre-shared keys is considered passwordless - secure - but
  71 you didn't supply a password) then Windows cannot determine how to
  72 access SMB shares since it needs to "login" or authenticate with the
  73 remote server using your username and password and all it has is your
  74 username. Thus having a remote home directory will never work for our
  75 purposes here. I will attempt to follow up on the Cygwin mailing list
  76 to confirm my suspicions about this. There is hope for this to be
  77 solved in the <a
  78  href="http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html">1.7 version
  79 of Cygwin</a>:<br>
  80
  81 <blockquote>Cygwin now allows storage and use of user passwords in a
  82 hidden area of the registry. This is tried first when Cygwin is called
  83 by privileged processes to switch the user context. This allows, for
  84 instance, ssh public key sessions with full network credentials to
  85 access shares on other machines.<br>
  86 </blockquote>
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