I think these docs are out of date. this is fixed now, since I am
doing it.
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Inc) schrieb:
>
> >>I did copy him on the original note so he would be aware of the issue,
> >>but at this point I have completely removed his version (including
> >>deleting registry keys) and installed the cygwin environment. It appears
> >>that all of cygwin works when run in a system owned command window, but
> >>nothing works from an administrator account.
>
> > Can you please acknowledge whether or not you read openssh*.README so that
> > we know whether you've missed the obvious user rights settings necessary for
> > the administrator account?
>
> I read it and still have similar problems and there is this:
>
> "The system account does of course own that user rights by default."
>
> That means SYSTEM is ok and it is the default if I let the
> ssh-host-config do the service setup. So I expect no problems here.
> More:
>
> Unfortunately, if you choose that way, you can only logon with
> NT password authentification and you should change
> /etc/sshd_config to contain the following:
>
> PasswordAuthentication yes
> RhostsAuthentication no
> RhostsRSAAuthentication no
> RSAAuthentication no
>
>
> Wow this is like a hammer. That means I cannot use PublicKey
> Authentication? If I cannot use public key authentication, the whole
> benefit (besides transfering passwords encrypted) is futsch...
>
> If I let them try to guess my password several days there will be at
> least one intruder every month...
>
> Is this true that PublicKey auth isn't working? (I cannot believe it).
>
>
> Gerrit
>
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