X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,KHOP_THREADED,POKER_BODY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: adding an ID with ssh password authentication broken passwordless authentication Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:06:13 -0700 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/16.0 In-Reply-To: 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On 09/14/2012 06:11 AM, John Ward wrote: > I am very green with Cygwin and inherited a system where we had ssh passwordless > authentication working with dsa keys. > > I needed to create a new ID that required a password and I was successfully able > to do that, but it appears I broke the passwordless authentication in the > process, as those accounts are no longer working. > > Has anyone encountered this? If so, where did I go wrong and how can I fix it? It's hard to tell what you did wrong when you did not give us the exact steps of what you did. -- Andrew DeFaria The other day I was playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. -- 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