[PATCH]: Drop the use of `check_nt_auth'.

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Wed May 23 21:29:43 EST 2001


On Wed, 23 May 2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the following patch removes some of the Cygwin specific code from
> OpenSSH.
>
> Since Cygwin is able to change the user context on NT/W2K even without
> a password since the new Cygwin version 1.3.2, there's no need anymore
> to allow changing the user context only if the sshd user is the same
> user as the one which logs in or when a password is given.
>
> For that reason the whole function `check_nt_auth' and all code which
> uses it, is completey dropped in the following patch.

Could you add a configure test to ensure that the support for this
extension is available in the version of Cygwin that the user is
compiling against?

-d

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