Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/26/17:31:55
Brian Keener wrote:
> If I start sshd as a service it doesn't matter if I have ntsec in the
> CYGWIN environmental variable or not - it still will ask me for the
> password. Whereas if I start sshd as Max described above without
> ntsec then ssh will ask for a password, but with ntsec then ssh will
> simply logon to the server and not ask for the password.
I had this problem. It turned out that, despite what I thought, ntsec was _not_
actually in the CYGWIN variable.
Look in the server debug output for the following 2 lines (in order to get the
output from when sshd is run as a service, change -D to -ddde in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\sshd\Parameters\AppArgs.
The output will be written to /var/log/sshd.log . Note that sshd will die after
every connection with -d, so remember to put it back to -D when you are done.) :
debug2: userauth_pubkey: authenticated 1 pkalg ssh-rsa
Failed publickey for max from 127.0.0.1 port 3064 ssh2
The important part is "userauth_pubkey: authenticated 1" (NB _1_) followed
immediately by "Failed publickey".
Basically "authenticated 1" is saying 'authenticated successfully'. The only
thing that can cause authntication to fail after this has been printed is a bit
of cygwin specific code that lacks and debug logging. Essentially, if this
combination occurs, the problem is that CYGWIN does not contain ntsec.
If this does not help, then you can try posting the output here for further
suggestions.
Max
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