X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: password authentication fails in cygwin openssh windows xp pro Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 10:59:36 -0500 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <4655A077.60407@gmail.com> <4655A398.80504@u.washington.edu> <4656341F.2000603@u.washington.edu> <46565B7E.906@u.washington.edu> <46566DB0.8090106@u.washington.edu> <4656EF3B.1030504@u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) In-Reply-To: <4656EF3B.1030504@u.washington.edu> OpenPGP: url=hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Dan Miller wrote: > Path statement appears fine. I think I'm missing something here. Isn't > it wierd that it is looking in /home/dan for keys and identities when > I'm logging in as the new user "fshd"? No, that is the way ssh works: you are user "dan" trying to login as user "= fshd" to somewhere, so it uses (local) dan keys and (remote) fshd authorized_keys. > I ran mkpasswd and mkgroup to > /etc/passwd and /etc/group and when I ssh localhost -l fshd it seems to > login and authenticate the password but then closes immediately. That's what the log showed. > I'm wondering if it is looking for the .bash files and not finding them > ...ie file not found....and then closing. I copied the .bash files from > skel but that didn't solve the problem. No, that's no it. > is this the problem? > debug3: channel 0: close_fds r -1 w -1 e 6 c -1 > debug3: fd 1 is not O_NONBLOCK > debug3: fd 2 is not O_NONBLOCK > Connection to localhost closed. No. > I just want to be able to login to this server as user fshd. fshd is > currently a user in windows, and member of the "users" group And it is almost working, it does log in, what happens next is what fails. = That means it can't execute the shell, did you change permissions? remember when= you said you made /bin/bash 0700 (which doesn't allow execution by any other us= er different from the one that installed Cygwin)? --=20 Ren=E9 Berber -- 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/