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: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:18:51 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa Message-ID: <20050818151851.GE2816@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20050817201613.GA13524@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <4303DDEB.F45A3616@dessent.net> <20050818134424.GA4219@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Aug 18 11:12, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > It appears as if your home directory is on the H drive and this is > > mounted from another system. Thus CYGWIN=ntsec does not apply because > > this is a share mounted using SMB. Thus, as I said before, you need to > > set CYGWIN=smbntsec and try again. > > This would also produce a chicken-and-egg problem for the OP: if the share > requires authentication, id_rsa won't be accessible until the user types > in a password, thus preventing any hope of public key authentication. > Igor You're mixing id_rsa with authorized_keys. id_rsa, the private key, is only used when authenticating against another machine. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/