X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43B4B2F1.8010207@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:09:21 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050929 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: scp/ssh: non-interactive commands using "PasswordAuthentication" fail References: <200512231711.jBNHBvBl016124@tigris.pounder.sol.net> <200512290508.jBT58aZn029596@tigris.pounder.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <200512290508.jBT58aZn029596@tigris.pounder.sol.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Tom Rodman wrote: > <2 informal tests on my home PC, /etc/ssh_config is "OTTB"> > > no problem, using PubkeyAuthentication: > > $ uname -a #login shell is bash, started by 'sshing in' > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 argon 1.5.19s(0.149/4/2) 20051227 16:45:51 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin > $ ssh localhost date > Wed Dec 28 21:03:43 CST 2005 > $ scp adm_tsr@localhost:/etc/passwd /tmp/toss > passwd 100% 704 0.7KB/s 00:00 > $ > > problems w/same tests using PasswordAuthentication: > > $ eval $(ssh-agent -k) #same bash session continuing > Agent pid 304 killed > $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 argon 1.5.19s(0.149/4/2) 20051227 16:45:51 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin > $ ssh localhost date > Enter passphrase for key '/home/adm_tsr/.ssh/id_rsa': > adm_tsr@localhost's password: > $ : skipped passphrase prompt, entered password; no date shows up > $ scp adm_tsr@localhost:/etc/passwd /tmp/toss > Enter passphrase for key '/home/adm_tsr/.ssh/id_rsa': > adm_tsr@localhost's password: > $ : skipped passphrase prompt, notice nothing echoed after password was entered > > comments? can anyone else duplicate this? Confirmed. cygwin1-20051216.dll is the last snapshot that worked properly for this. Sorry, that's all the input I have for the moment. -- 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/