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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:08:56 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: David Corbin cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: sshd debugging In-Reply-To: <200403232217.22146.dcorbin@machturtle.com> Message-ID: References: <200403230716 DOT 34187 DOT dcorbin AT machturtle DOT com> <20040323122655 DOT GA14240 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <200403232217 DOT 22146 DOT dcorbin AT machturtle DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, David Corbin wrote: > On Tuesday 23 March 2004 07:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar 23 07:16, David Corbin wrote: > > > I have sshd up and running as a service. I can ssh into the box if I > > > type a password, but I do have a public-key/private-key installed that it > > > doesn't seem to recognize. (If you want to recommend a solution to this > > > problem, please do - it's the real problem). > > > > The keys are probably not readable by SYSTEM. Use ssh-user-config as > > the affected user. The script sets the permissions correctly. > > Thanks. That corrected it. What does it really mean to be readble by > "SYSTEM"? I'm fairly savy about unix/windows security, but I'm not sure I > have a clue how cygwin manages things. "SYSTEM" is a username. Sort of like "root" in Unix, but, unlike root, not able to read the files that don't have appropriate ACLs (it *is* able to add appropriate permissions if necessary, and to become any other user, but until it "invokes" these special powers, it's just like any other user). Does that help? Igor P.S. None of my explanation is actually Cygwin-specific. For more information, read . -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/