Re: ssh with keys to Cygwin/Openssh on Windows XP

["Mark Priest" <mpriest at erols dot com>]

Jeffrey,

It appears  that the public key authentication is failing.  I am assuming
you are using SSH protocol version 2 since you do not have a key in
/home/jhood/.ssh/identity.  Do you have both dsa and rsa keys in
/home/jhood/.ssh/id_rsa and /home/jhood/.ssh/id_dsa?

It would be helpful if you ran the sshd service in debug mode by passing
the -ddd argument.  Are you sure that you copied the public key
corresponding to the correct private key?

I am running XP Professional with cygwin 1.3.22 and openssh 3.6.1p1-2 and I
have no problem using public key authnentication using the openssh client or
using Putty.

Good luck,
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Hood" <jhood@hmcon.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 5:02 PM
Subject: RE: ssh with keys to Cygwin/Openssh on Windows XP


> > I use it just fine.
> >
> > Im not sure what the issue is.
> >
> > 1.  Could be /etc/passwd file is not pointing to the correct $HOME
>
> /etc/passwd from a cygwin prompt points to /cygdrive/c/home/jhood ...
just
> like it should (the .ssh/authorized_keys is in under there...)
>
> the keys are in both .ssh/authorized_keys and .ssh/authorized_keys2...  I
> also have them (just in case...) in /home/jhood/.ssh/authorized_keys and
> /home/jhood/.ssh/authorized_keys2
>
> the debug output from ssh -vvv is:
>
> debug1: authentications that can continue:
> publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
> debug3: start over, passed a different list
> publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
> debug3: preferred publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
> debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey
> debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password
> debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey
> debug1: next auth method to try is publickey
> debug1: try privkey: /home/jhood/.ssh/identity
> debug3: no such identity: /home/jhood/.ssh/identity
> debug1: try pubkey: /home/jhood/.ssh/id_rsa
> debug3: send_pubkey_test
> debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
> debug1: authentications that can continue:
> publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
> debug1: try pubkey: /home/jhood/.ssh/id_dsa
> debug3: send_pubkey_test
> debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
> debug1: authentications that can continue:
> publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
> debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
> debug3: authmethod_lookup keyboard-interactive
> debug3: remaining preferred: password
> debug3: authmethod_is_enabled keyboard-interactive
> debug1: next auth method to try is keyboard-interactive
> debug2: userauth_kbdint
> debug2: we sent a keyboard-interactive packet, wait for reply
> debug1: authentications that can continue:
> publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
> debug3: userauth_kbdint: disable: no info_req_seen
> debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method
> debug3: authmethod_lookup password
> debug3: remaining preferred:
> debug3: authmethod_is_enabled password
> debug1: next auth method to try is password
> jhood@jhoodxp's password:
>
> logging in with the password always works...  I'm pretty much out of ideas
> at this point...
>
> JH
>
>
> >
> >
> > Is there anyone who has had any success getting sshd to work on a
> > Windows XP box with keys...?  I have searche all over and tried
> > everything in all the things that I have found to get copied keys in
> > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys to work with the server on a Windows XP
> > Professional box, and nothing is working...  ssh'ing works fine, just
> > not with automatic logins with keys...
> >
> > (Using Cygwin setup 2.249.2.5)
> >
> > Thanks in advance...
> >
> > JH
> >
>
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>
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