Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <021101c234eb$a85050f0$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> From: "Max Bowsher" To: , References: Subject: Re: Openssh 3.0.2-p15: Can't validate public key when accesing from cron Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 19:42:21 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Pablo Milano wrote: >> I am using Cygwin with openssh 3.0.2p1-5 and openssl 0.9.6c-2 >> The sshd is running in a windows 2000 server computer. >> I use rsa keys to authenticate the users who access the ssh server >> from linux machines (kernel 2.4.18). >> Authentication works fine if the "ssh -i user.key user AT server" is >> run from a linux console, but it fails if the same command is run >> from cron. The following error is returned to the standard error >> console: "Host key verification failed." >> >> This happens only when trying to connect to the cygwin ssh server. >> It works fine among linux servers. >> Any hint? 1. Upgrade openssh - 3.0.x is: a) ancient, b) known to have security problems. 2. The problem is likely to be that the server's host key is not in the ssh known_hosts file for the user that cron is running ssh as. Since ssh is running non-interatively, it can't prompt 'Do you wat to trust this host key?'. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/