X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:32:44 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: OpenSSH pubkey authentication failing after update to 5.4 Message-ID: <20100310163244.GA6505@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mar 10 17:15, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Hi, > > today I updated to OpenSSH 5.4 from 5.3 and I noticed on four different > hosts that pubkey authentication was not working anymore after the > update (while password authentication still works). > > I started the server with "-ddd" and this is the (in my opinion) > critical difference: > > # 5.3 (old SSH) > temporarily_use_uid: 500/513 (e=1105/513) > trying public key file /home/admin/.ssh/authorized_keys > fd 4 clearing O_NONBLOCK > matching key found: file /home/admin/.ssh/authorized_keys, line 1 > Found matching DSA key: 1b:31:25:da:6f:89:17:e8:25:46:46:60:ed:6f:a2:6c > > # 5.4 (new SSH) > temporarily_use_uid: 500/513 (e=1105/513) > trying public key file //.ssh/authorized_keys > restore_uid: 1105/513 > temporarily_use_uid: 500/513 (e=1105/513) > trying public key file //.ssh/authorized_keys > restore_uid: 1105/513 > Failed publickey for admin from 149.44.136.129 port 2864 ssh2 > > > What else can I provide to help troubleshooting this issue?! It works for me, regardless of running as service or in the commandline. The path to the authorized_keys file is the entry from /etc/passwd. You should try to find out where it's getting the / from in the path to authorize_keys. Do you have two different entries for the Administrator user, by any chance? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple