Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 18:58:44 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken? Message-ID: <20021108185844.Q21920@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:37:11AM -0500, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > chmod 700 ~ && \ ^^^^^^^^^^^ This is your problem. By setting home and .ssh to 700 you disallow sshd to stat() ~/.ssh. Cygwin has two chances to retrieve information about a file or directory, by either calling FindFileFirst() or by trying to open the file and calling various Win32 access functions. FindFileFirst() requires to have read permissions on the parent directory, opening the file/dir requires read permissions on it. If home as well as .ssh are 700, sshd has neither of these rights ==> The check for .ssh fails. Qed, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/