On Thursday 28 Mar 02, Daniel Holtkamp writes: > Hello everyone, > > I´m using cygwin for some time now but today i ran into a problem. > I´ve got a user-request that they want to be able to scp files to a > host without entering their password everytime. No problem i > thought, deploy the public-key on the server and that should do it, > but it won´t work.
Well there's a bit more to it than that but we don't know if you did the steps or not. I don't think that ntsec is a prerequisite for using ssh-agent. I found it to be a prerequisite for logging in to my domain account, but that's another story. > I´ve read some manual stuff and came to the conclusion that i > should use the ntsec variable. I do this because i think the > problem lies with the file-permissions on the ~/.ssh/id_rsa file > (group and world readable). Well, no problem, set the variable, > fire up cygwin and what happens ? Everything is messed up, can´t > even write to my home-directory anymore. I think it´s because i´m a > domain-user and not the local computer user. I reinstalled Cygwin > several times and always ran into the same problem. (Domain user is > not included in /etc/passwd ... only the local ones). So add it then. Use mkpasswd -d & mkgroup -d to determine the right entries. David -- 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/
