On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Andrew DeFaria <and...@defaria.com> wrote: > On 1/23/2012 2:22 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> >> When I've seen this before on this list, it's because you are in a domain >> and your user is a domain user. If that's the case, you want to create a >> domain account to run your sshd server or use a local user to ssh in with. >> If this doesn't describe your situation, I'd recommend adding debug flags >> to your sshd server so that you can see a full log of things on that side >> of the fence. Typically this is very illuminating for server-side issues. > > I'm on XP. I log into a domain. sshd is running as Local System account. I > can log in if I specify my password. It's just pre-shared key that isn't > working and I believe this to be a permissions problem (see other postings > about permissions problems).
Make sure ~/.ssh directory has 700 permissions. Make sure the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file has 600 permissions. The authorized_keys entry is one line and is the public key of the key pair. HTH, -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- 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
