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Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 10:53:15 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
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Subject: Re: SSH 2.2.0p1 not working on Windows2000
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Janardhan Kakarla wrote:
> 
> I am relatively new to Cygwin and SSH and am trying to
> make ssh work for me on Windows2000 with very little
> success. Any help is really appreciated. Following is
> the summary of the steps that I took in setting up
> cygwin and ssh.
> 
> - Installed cygwin 1.1.4 for the first time on a
> pretty much "virgin" Windows2000 machine.
> - Cygwin installed great. Started working without a
> glitch.
> - Modified the /etc/passwd file to list the correct
> user home directory.
> - Untar'ed SSH 2.2.0p1 and ran
> /usr/local/bin/ssh-config. It asked for passphrase and
> everything seemed to work ok.
> - exported CYGWIN="ntsec binmode". Decided to run sshd
> in a simple command-line environment. Started sshd
> with -d option.
> - started another cygwin shell, exported CYGWIN var
> and started ssh with -v option and it complained that
> I was not authorised after getting my password. (I
> have included the messages at the end of this mail).
> - I changed sshd_config and ssh_config to not do RSA
> or rhosts authentication, but just
> PasswordAuthentication, changed the protocol to be
> "2,1" and stared sshd and ssh again and got the same
> errors.
> 
> Please help. Am I supposed to do something more.

You can't use password authentication on command line until you
haven't added special permissions to your user.

Read /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-2.2.0p1.README

Corinna

BTW: You could simplify the task by adding the env var CYGWIN to
the W2K system environment.

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