I've researched this topic online for days and it seems like every one has their own solution or their own idea about how user authentication works in Cygwin.
What I CAN'T seem to find is a simple description of exactly what happens when a user tries to log in via SSH. What is the flow of Cygwin's authentication process? I assume it checks /etc/passwd and /etc/group, then somehow validates against Windows passwords. But how?? Does it check passwd or group first? Does the user have to have a group? How does Cygwin compare groups in the group file to groups in Windows? My problem is simple... I have users that I created that cannot log in via SSH unless I make them members of the Windows ADMINISTRATORS group on the Windows 2003 server that is running Cygwin. I've tried everything I can think of and lots of stuff from other people that I could never have thought up myself. Can anyone explain in detail the steps Cygwin goes through to authenticate a user via SSH? -- 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/
