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Subject:  Re: Shared home dir, samba workgroups and ssh
Date:  Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:20:45 -0500
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> As Larry proposed, "StrictModes no" or mapping .ssh to a local 
> directory should help. Another choice would be to start sshd with 
> "nontsec".
Pretty much as I suspected. I missed Larry's response. Sorry. But 
Corina, you're response here will server others well I suspect.

While I can turn StrictModes to no on my server, I can't on the various 
Unix machines I might log into at work.

How do you "map" the .ssh directory to a local directory? Would it be 
something like mv ~/.ssh /cygdrive/c/myssh and then ln -s 
/cygdrive/c/myssh ~/.ssh? Hmm.... I wonder how that would look/work when 
I'm on a Unix machine (which shares my home directory) when I ssh from 
one Unix machine to another...). As for starting with nontsec would that 
be something like "CYGWIN=NONTSEC ssh <host>" at the command line?

On another front, and this may be of interest to others in restrictive 
environments, I've downloaded and installed proxytunnel 
(http://proxytunnel.com) since I cannot by default ssh from work to home 
due to firewall restrictions. This works well and I have changed my 
~/.ssh/config to define my home machine to use this proxytunnel thing. 
However I noticed that while Cygwin's OpenSSH supports these entries in 
the ~/.ssh/config file, some of the Unix/Linux machines @work barf at 
it. Guess I could maintain two config files and do the associated magic 
with aliases/functions/script in the like so that on Unix it ssh's 
specifying an alternate config file and on Cygwin it starts with the 
NONTSEC thing. What a bother though. I just want to be able to ssh into 
a machine with a minimal amount of fuss...

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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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