X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4ED56819.6050707@etr-usa.com> References: <9E9DD545D034B84B935BB50A739B078B0551DD6893 AT sha-exch12 DOT shared DOT ifeltd DOT com> <4ED56819 DOT 6050707 AT etr-usa DOT com> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:51:22 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Passwordless sftp with ssh 5.9 still asks for password From: Csaba Raduly To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id pAU8peae013310 On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Warren Young wrote: > On 11/29/2011 2:49 PM, Andrew Erskine wrote: >> >> ssh-keygen -t dsa > > "-t [keytype]" is a default flag these days, and it defaults to RSA, not > DSA.  Unless you know for a fact you need DSA keys for some odd reason, > leave this flag off and accept the default. > > (ssh itself doesn't care what kind of key you use, as long as both ends have > support for the key type you want to use.  Since every ssh implementation > I've used since *forever* supports both RSA and DSA, the only way I can see > why you'd want to use DSA is if you had some weird third-party tool that > only understood DSA keys.) > >> Accept the default >> key location, C:\Documents and Settings\nhuser\.ssh\id_dsa, > > Why would that be the default location, if you are using Cygwin tools? > Shouldn't it be something like c:\cygwin\home\nhuser\.ssh\...?  You can > change your HOME to anything you like, but that's not the default with > Cygwin. That *is* the default with Cygwin if HOME, or HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH, is set in the Windows environment. Csaba -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers. Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts. "Ok, it boots. Which means it must be bug-free and perfect. " -- Linus Torvalds "People disagree with me. I just ignore them." -- Linus Torvalds -- 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