X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:08:15 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <1007387322.20111110050815@mtu-net.ru> To: carolus , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh public key authentication problem using curl In-Reply-To: References: <245272265.20111103195132@mtu-net.ru> <1969561912.20111104233318@mtu-net.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Greetings, carolus! >> You didn't supplied a username to the remote host at all. >> Quite predictable, you got a name mismatch... > Thanks. That was the clue. The following all work, connecting to my > cygwin home directory on the server: > ssh dell03 > sftp dell03 > lftp sftp://dell03 > but curl requires a more explicit syntax: curl sftp://cdr@dell03 > I had tried curl -u cdr, but that asks for a password. Since I want to > use curl in a script, I did not want to have to enter a password. > I did not think of trying a different syntax until reading your suggestion. Many tools take your $USER as login name to remote host by default. Which is a rather wild guess, in general, but often works... locally. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 10.11.2011, <05:06> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple