Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/03/28/10:03:25
On Thursday 28 Mar 02, Daniel Holtkamp writes:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I´m using cygwin for some time now but today i ran into a problem.
> I´ve got a user-request that they want to be able to scp files to a
> host without entering their password everytime. No problem i
> thought, deploy the public-key on the server and that should do it,
> but it won´t work.
Well there's a bit more to it than that but we don't know if you did
the steps or not. I don't think that ntsec is a prerequisite for
using ssh-agent. I found it to be a prerequisite for logging in to my
domain account, but that's another story.
> I´ve read some manual stuff and came to the conclusion that i
> should use the ntsec variable. I do this because i think the
> problem lies with the file-permissions on the ~/.ssh/id_rsa file
> (group and world readable). Well, no problem, set the variable,
> fire up cygwin and what happens ? Everything is messed up, can´t
> even write to my home-directory anymore. I think it´s because i´m a
> domain-user and not the local computer user. I reinstalled Cygwin
> several times and always ran into the same problem. (Domain user is
> not included in /etc/passwd ... only the local ones).
So add it then. Use mkpasswd -d & mkgroup -d to determine the right
entries.
David
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