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Subject:	Re: Need help in making passwordless sftp work for cygwin
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On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Tzung-Cheng Yang wrote:

> I tried to make passwordless sftp work between a Windows 2000 system
> running cygwin and a Redhat Linux Enterprise 4 box.
>
> After I putting the id_rsa.pub in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on remote
> host(linux box), the sftp still keeps asking password.
>
> I also changed the following on the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file on remote
> hosts
>
> RSAAuthentication yes
> PubkeyAuthentication yes
> AuthorizedKeysFile      .ssh/authorized_keys
>
> Can anybody help to solve the problem?
>
> Here is the message
>
> $ sftp -v tcy AT nhic2
> [snip]

Try reading and following

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

especially the part about attaching the output of "cygcheck -svr" on your
machine.

Also, "sftp -vvv ..." should produce more debugging info which may point
to the source of the problem.
	Igor
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