X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:21:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Tzung-Cheng Yang cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Need help in making passwordless sftp work for cygwin In-Reply-To: <44A903F7.1080105@noaa.gov> Message-ID: References: <44A903F7.1080105@noaa.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Tzung-Cheng Yang wrote: > I tried to make passwordless sftp work between a Windows 2000 system > running cygwin and a Redhat Linux Enterprise 4 box. > > After I putting the id_rsa.pub in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on remote > host(linux box), the sftp still keeps asking password. > > I also changed the following on the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file on remote > hosts > > RSAAuthentication yes > PubkeyAuthentication yes > AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys > > Can anybody help to solve the problem? > > Here is the message > > $ sftp -v tcy@nhic2 > [snip] Try reading and following > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html especially the part about attaching the output of "cygcheck -svr" on your machine. Also, "sftp -vvv ..." should produce more debugging info which may point to the source of the problem. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/