Hi, I have about 8 machines experiencing problems while trying to use passwordless public key authentication, via passwd -R. Happening on W7, w2k8, x86 & x64 sshd running on all as a domain user, with the correct local security policy changes made, and /var/empty owner by sshd user etc. pub key auth always works for the user sshd is been run as, but not any other user - connection closed by... error - windows event log does show sshd pid xxx fatal initgroups permission denied error If I reboot any of the above, generally passwordless pub key auth doesn't work - if I then rdp to windows machine, login as another user, log out - I can then ssh using keys to that machine as the user I RDP'd as - until it gets rebooted again.
And then - after several more reboots - without any changes been made on the machines - I can use keys to login to the machine as any user successfully - until it gets rebooted and reverts to the usual problem I have tried installing cyglsa - but after installing and rebooting - I don't notice any difference - although I'm unsure if there is something else needed for cyglsa to function or is adding the users to the passwd/groups sufficient? Thanks for any suggestions - the fact that it intermittently works is baffling me.... Cheers Shane -- 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
