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 From: "pedal2metal" To: Subject: RE: sshd under Cygwin Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 06:44:38 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Hello, After using the following references: http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~kscully/SSH/CygwinSSHD_W2K3.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg00844.html /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README /usr/bin/ssh-host-config /usr/bin/ssh-user-config & plenty of T&E (trial & error), I was able to get RSA SSH2 keys to work properly. In conclusion, change the _user to instead of 'system' in both of the above scripts. I installed the sshd service manually but that was mainly due to the debug/analysis nature of the work. Shouldn't be necessary if the _user variable is changed in both scripts. Anyhow, this does bring up another question: How would one get RSA SSH2 keys to work with multiple user logins since the cygrunsrv/sshd process can only run as 1 user? It would appear the answer is "Not possible" based on my T&E results. thanks & best regards, eric rose email: pedal2metal AT sbcglobal DOT net -----Original Message----- From: pedal2metal [mailto:pedal2metal AT sbcglobal DOT net] Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 1:37 AM To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: sshd under Cygwin Hello, Ok, I installed all of Cygwin & then attempted to get sshd running. I did this about 1.5 years ago & it didn't seem too hard so I thought I try again. Anyhow, this time, I've grown a bit & use the RSA keys of SSH Protocol 2 as my standard method so I wanted to do that this time. Well I ran ssh-host-config & everything looked good but only password authentication worked. After lots of mistakes, false starts, I figured out my /home/ directory rights were wrong & ran ssh-user-config to fix them which removed write priveleges for group/world. Still no RSA keys allowed. Anyhow, now I'm afraid I've made a total mess of things. I read the /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README file which is how I got this email address. I ended up trying to "reset" things. I deleted my .ssh directory. I removed the "sshd" service via regedit. I removed the "sshd" user also via Control Panel. I then ran ssh-user-config, regenerated my RSA SSH Protocol 2 keys, then ran ssh-host-config & said yes to everything & I have CYGWIN='ntsec tty'. Still no luck. I can only connect by using my password. I'm using the "ssh 127.0.0.1" test as my reference. I'm guessing this whole process is a "do-once" & once you screw it up, it can't be undone short of a complete Cygwin re-install and/or Windows re-install, although honestly, I have no clue. I've done Google, read tons of emails, threads, read the /usr/share/doc area, etc... still no fundamental clue on the deterministic process to get RSA2 keys working reliably with sshd under Cygwin. I'm running Windows 2000 Pro SP4 & using a February 25,2004 archive of the redhat mirror for the Cygwin install. I am operational since I can use my password but I'm completely baffled by why the RSA2 keys don't work since I use them on my other systems which I use SSH for. thanks & best regards, Eric Rose -- 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/