X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_BN,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:01:13 -0800 Lines: 77 Message-ID: References: <1910391597.20120121163937@mtu-net.ru> <1326199340.20120122003455@mtu-net.ru> <1838817585.20120122072825@mtu-net.ru> <20120123095700.GC2456@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20120123095700.GC2456@calimero.vinschen.de> X-Stationery: 0.7.7 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 1/23/2012 1:57 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 22 16:30, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> On 1/22/2012 10:21 AM, Len Giambrone wrote: >>> I believe that PuTTy is SSH2, while Cygwin is OpenSSH. You can convert them using >>> ssh-keygen: >>> >>> ssh-keygen -f putty_key -i> openssh_key >> I tried this. It didn't work. Same error as before. >> >> Read 8.2.12 of the Putty help file - had no idea there was a format >> difference I had to do anything about! Tried what it said to do, use >> Conversions: Export to OpenSSH. But that key looks like: >> >> Ltsdo-adefaria:more /tmp/sshkey >> -----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY----- >> MIIBuwIBAAKBgQDI+RkFLTib52+4+OzI+035r8fIConadaJuXNd+ZRSOvoLJar44 >> 1m7jgSnp2A52LJ8LJeC99c7NQ1BBoHueRkgBWReH7orWH2T/vlFrPRgIU48vvgPH >> 4OrLFRtmN/uYj/BTbWFilN2jFZiiESSr4pSOPNNSblqj+UYXfFxc2ZrhIQIVANFm >> lV9qPmupo+/ZQqw1uTRypqve98yI2ZbXTuwIFLAps2T4rQKjmgmfghNWgmUEP0Sm >> V8qEfW8JvSh773fwYgtsAfos/+GPqc7V+UysKT2Na+5sOgqALSX6yfLBi0xAA2Iy >> ToRtrHupAoGAOS7f1yopMnELx7GhAtEtREN1zDikwa8dVhilM1M38+eZH4Z0Wd/3 >> H9W2iKKYjgj8lIIYGiXUxjEWhA3n/3N6HDT0O5X97Pp+dM7oHlAaKtGl0Y9ao+Zn >> SmXSquCsokL+1mh1baIe+VcyV2EA7Uat/B0zIlGpwfq4bQv0DmCjl4gCFDBh6pvn >> ckhR34s8s2jaQnkdgv+p >> -----END DSA PRIVATE KEY----- >> >> Whereas all of the lines of my ~/.ssh/authorized_keys files are >> single, loooong lines. > Maybe you *should* read the man pages. The above is the private part of > the key. authorized_keys is the file on the server side so it hold only > public keys. You're right. I made a mistake. Corrected it: Ltsdo-adefaria:cat /tmp/sshkey_public ---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ---- Comment: "dsa-key-20120121" AAAAB3NzaC1kc3MAAACBAMj5GQUtOJvnb7j47Mj7Tfmvx8gKidp1om5c135lFI6+ gslqvjjWbuOBKenYDnYsnwsl4L31zs1DUEGge55GSAFZF4fuitYfZP++UWs9GAhT jy++A8fg6ssVG2Y3+5iP8FNtYWKU3aMVmKIRJKvilI4801JuWqP5Rhd8XFzZmuEh AAAAFQDRZu5keejWsFQn7+ZUlgf5RNrT/QAAAIEAjt/rOWTGhZz7SOnHjsL6lSn4 E1aCZQQ/RKZXyoR9bwm9KHvvd/BiC2wB+iz/4Y+pztX5TKwpPY1r7mw6CoAtJfrJ 8sGLTEADYjJOhG2se6kAAACAOS7f1yopMnELx7GhAtEtREN1zDikwa8dVhilM1M3 8+eZH4Z0Wd/3H9W2iKKYjgj8lIIYGiXUxjEWhA3n/3N6HDT0O5X97Pp+dM7oHlAa KtGl0Y9ao+ZnSmXSquCsokL+1mh1baIe+VcyV2EA7Uat/B0zIlGpwfq4bQv0DmCj l4g= Added this to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Still fails - same way. Does OpenSSH accept these multiline keys? > >> Can anybody give me clear, concise but complete end to end >> instructions on how to get this to work? > There are tons of that in the net. Just google for "putty openssh". I followed http://unixwiz.net/techtips/putty-openssh.html pretty much exactly 'cept instead of Linux I'm using Cygwin. It didn't work. It still prompts me for my password. I think the problem is that my home directory is on a file server and that file server is not playing nice. By this I mean: Ltsdo-adefaria:touch foo Ltsdo-adefaria:ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria clearusers 0 Jan 23 10:59 foo Ltsdo-adefaria:chmod 600 foo Ltsdo-adefaria:ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria clearusers 0 Jan 23 10:59 foo Ltsdo-adefaria:df . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on //fs-irva-82/adefaria 5242880 343572 4899308 7% /home/adefaria Ltsdo-adefaria:echo $CYGWIN ntsec smbntsec winsymlinks nodosfilewarning Ltsdo-adefaria: I've run across this before where the remote, often, samba server is not handling permissions like a Windows SMB server would. -- Andrew DeFaria Does fuzzy logic tickle? -- 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