X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4657ACD9.4030904@u.washington.edu> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 20:43:21 -0700 From: Dan Miller Reply-To: dguthriem@gmail.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: password authentication fails in cygwin openssh windows xp pro 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 René Berber wrote: > 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 user > different from the one that installed Cygwin)? > Rene, I got it working. It was completely due to permissions restrictions I had placed on the FSHD user. A few modifications and it logs in fine now. In particular (for anyone playing along at home) I used windows to change folder access permissions to cygwin folder, bin, and home directories. Thank you very much for you help. I've been working on this for a while. Dan -- 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/