X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: sshd: public key working, but can't get passwords working Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:32:42 -0500 Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (Windows/20070716) In-Reply-To: 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 Daniel Griscom wrote: [snip] >> Do you happen to have a domain user as well as a local user? >=20 > I don't know the difference. I'm not at the machine now, but it's a > vanilla Windows installation. All machines on my network are in > workgroup MSHOME. I created one account when installing windows, > "development". I told ssh-host-config to create the sshd user, but I > don't know of any other users created. >=20 > How would I test this? What I meant is that you could have a user named development as a local use= r, and (a different) domain-user with the same name. I did not mean a "domain" user, just if there was several "development" users. It looks like the answer is no. Back to the original problem: did you use ssh-user-config? (I guess you did since you had to copy the public key). What you reported about the log is simple, the password used is not correct= ... it should prompt you 3 times and then close the connection; or the configur= ation does not allow password authentication, let's check this last one: In /etc/sshd_config you should have: #PasswordAuthentication yes #PermitEmptyPasswords no #UsePAM no Those are the defaults, that's why they are commented. --=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/