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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 13:38:02 +0100 (MET)
From: Bjoern Kahl AG Resy <kahl AT informatik DOT uni-kl DOT de>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
cc: Andreas Schorr <schorr AT informatik DOT uni-ulm DOT de>
Subject: Re: cvs/ssh and rsa based authentication
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 Hallo !

 Just a guess:

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Andreas Schorr wrote:

> Unfortunately the same thing doesn't work, if I login to the
> same server from a Windows 2000 client using Cygwin.
> Although I have created another public/secret key pair on
> the Windows 2000 system and put the public key into the
> ~/.ssh/autorized_keys file on the cvs server, I'm still asked
> for my ssh password, each time I send a cvs command or
> each time I try to login to the server via ssh directly. This
> happens even if I use the ssh option -i (with which you can
> specify the path to your secret key directly).


 Did you enable RSAAuthentication in your ssh *client* ?
 IIRC cygwins ssh-client has RSAAuthentication disabled by
 default (because you *need* a password for a full
 user-context-switch).
 Try adding "-o RSAAuthentication" to your ssh-client
 commandline.


 Bjoern

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