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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050603211955.06ff2e88@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 21:26:09 -0400 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Tevfik =?iso-8859-1?Q?Karag=FClle?= From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: Problems with OpenSSH/Cygwin connectivity to Windows NT/2000 machines. In-Reply-To: References: <200506032129.j53LTQK27756@ani.mywh.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j541TtGY003052 At 08:06 PM 6/3/2005, you wrote: >On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Tevfik Karagülle wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Are there essential differences between cygwin versions 1.5.14 and 1.5.17 >> regarding openssh authentication ? >> >> I have two test environments: >> >> 1) Cygwin 1.5.14, openssh 4.1p-1, openssl 0.9.7g >> 2) Cygwin 1.5.17, openssh 4.1p-1, openssl 0.9.7g >> >> While everything (nt/2000/xp/2003) work as expected in environment 1, we >> get 'access denied' messages when we try to connect to nt/2000 machines >> in environment 2. Xp and 2003 work just fine. >> >> Any clues ? > >Since you mention authentication, I assume you're asking about sshd. I >also assume you've eliminated the client from the equation by using the >same host to ssh into the machines in question. > >In what situation do you get "access denied"? Do you use public key >authentication? Are your permissions identical on sshd support/config >files? Are /etc/passwd and /etc/group files up-to-date on both machines? >Did you try running sshd with debugging flags? Do you get any messages in >the log files or in the Windows Event Log? What does "ssh -vvv" (yes, on >the client) report when connecting to both working and non-working >machines? > >If worse comes to worst, and the above doesn't provide any clues, there's >always strace (the output of which from both machines can be compared >easily enough). And just in case there's any confusion, I'm running exactly the versions listed on my W2K machine and I use them to access the machine remotely everyday (via public key authentication). I've been doing this for years now and it has never been a problem to do so. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/