X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:20:26 -0400 From: "Mark J. Reed" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: SSH publickey problem, password works (Win 2003, OpenSSH_5.1p1, Cygwin DLL1.5.25 ) In-Reply-To: <48C640CF.6060809@scn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48C640CF.6060809@scn.org> 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 On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Just Me wrote: > I've been fighting with SSH for a week now, I've read everything I can > google, it's finally time to ask for help. > > I can ssh to any account using a password, no problem. It bombs with a > cannot seteuid error in the event log when I use a keypair. Are you sure the seteuid error is the important one? > The permissions of /home/sfinfo are 755 Acceptable. > The permissions of /home/sfinfo/.ssh are 755 Bzzt. > The permissions of /home/sfinfo/.ssh/authorized_keys are 644 Bzzt. The symptoms you describe are not what I would expect, but I'm pretty sure this will definitely not work unless the permissions on .ssh are 0700 and those on .ssh/authorized_keys are 0600. > The authorized_keys file contains one DSA public key. OK. > The permissions on the private key, sfinfo_id_dsa are 600. ...the private key is, of course, on the system you're ssh'ing *from* while the authorized_keys file is on the system you're ssh'ing *to*, correct? -- 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/