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Subject: Re: OpenSSH: differences for public key and password authentication
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Jasper Moeller wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm sure I had found some references to this before, but I'm completely 
> unable to dig them out again, so please bear with me.
> 
> We are using cygwin+openssh for remote logins from linux onto an WinXP 
> machine, which we use for automated build processes. We set up public 
> key authentication successfully, however, there seem to be some 
> differences between publickey authentication and password authentication 
> - mainly, when using the public key, several permissions are 
> wrong/missing/whatsoever. On problem is when trying to access network 
> shares (we use AFS, just to complicate matters further...), the other 
> manifests itself when trying to run several .NET applications (NDoc and 
> especially signtool.exe). We can work around most ones, except for the 
> signtool issue :-(
> 
> I'd really hate going back to password logins since this basically 
> prevents fully automated builds, so is there any way around it? Probably 
> some server misconfiguration which I can't find out?
> 
> SSH server config excerpt:
> 
> - Uses privilege separation
> - service starts as SYSTEM account
> - CYGINW=ntsec
> - Rest as suggested by ssh-host-config
> 

<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.shares>

Or, if you prefer the cutting edge:

<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-developers/2006-11/msg00000.html>

Read this thread and others on the Cygwin list that have tried this before
proceeding.

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