Re: SSHD user-switching under Cygwin/XP (was Re: Case insensitivity ad nauseum)

[Nathan Kidd]

Derek Robert Price wrote:
> > I didn't carefully read over this whole list of permutations, but at
> > first glance, perhaps it's just the domain for oberon that's missing?
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > net use z: \\empress\oberon /user:empress\oberon  <password>
> >
> >
> >
> > Yep.  That's it, I just also have to login using a password rather than
> > my private/public key pair.
>
> As I revisit this, I note however, that this is not sufficient.  I'm
> trying to set up automated testing, so I couldn't enter the password if
> I wanted to - even saving to a file and attempting to echo it to ssh
> doesn't work because ssh grabs the TTY to get the password.  I really
> need to use public key authentication, but this prevents SSHD from
> grabbing the Windows authentication tokens.
>
> I think maybe this is a Windows (combined with SSHD?) limitation that I
> cannot get any access to network resources without authenticating with a
> password?

I don't know if this helps in your situation, but if you are always 
testing from the same machine you could have a persistent connection to 
some share on empress using oberon's password.  Any subsequent access to 
any share on empress will automatically use this user/password without 
prompting for it.  That is, it is sufficient to simply run:
   net use * \\empress\oberon

But then if you do this you might as well make the original connection 
you want as persistent and never even bother with "net use" in your script.

(On W2K, at least, it doesn't even seem possible to use a password from 
STDIN.)

-Nathan