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Keith D. Zimmerman wrote: > When accessing my repository with :ext: and ssh (our server is windows > 2000 server, running cygwin ssh server), all cvs history is stored as > coming from SYSTEM. Should it not show my name when I am using my > username (ie: :ext:keith at server2...) instead of SYSTEM in the cvs > history?? > It's a limitation of NT - cygwin can't really change user ID because that's impossible without the password, so it uses the same trick cvsnt uses for pserver, and creates a fake impersonation token for the user. Unfortunately although that gives the correct access rights, it doesn't really change the user, just drops privileges. AFAIK if you use username/password rather than RSA auth it uses the LogonUser API so the username changes. Tony