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Re: Passwordless login with ssh
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Mark Priest wrote:
Andrew,
I have a home directory with a space in it. The space appears in the
directory name as well as in the entry in passwd. There is no problem
supporting that in Cygwin. I had to create my home directories
manually so you might want to try doing the same thing.
I might want to try what same thing? Creating my home directory? I
assure you that /home/Andrew DeFaria exists. It has exists for quite
some time. By and large Cygwin's OK with it. Some things don't work
with it. ssh-user-config is just another one of those things...
(I could remake my home directory to not have a space in it however
I'm of the opinion that since space is a valid character for a
filename that programs should be coded to handle such cases).
Note I also tried:
$ ln -s "/home/Andrew DeFaria" /home/Andrew
and changing my home directory in /etc/passwd to /home/Andrew as well
as trying to use /home/Andrew~1 (the DOS mangled name for /home/Andrew
DeFaria) in /etc/passwd to no avail.
Mea Culpa! I actually had two /etc/passwd lines with the same uid, one
for Andrew and one for exim. The later was commented out (which I know
isn't officially supported). ssh-user-config got confused when it had
two /etc/passwd lines for a single uid.
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Access denied--nah nah na nah nah!
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