David and Andrew thanks for your replies. Yes I didn't provide enough details, David you are right. But ...
I was hoping more for some pointers to what the permissions must be and then do the troubleshooting myself. The "unix" side of permissions look ok. I don't know what the windows side must be or if it matters. The "ssh -vvv' (client side) has not been particularly helpful to me when it comes to permissions. and my understanding is that I can't run the sshd frontend without screwing the permissions. (the client sends the publickey packet and then jumps to next auth method) Cheers. On 4/04/2012 23:30, David Sastre Medina wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 03:26:39PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Rurik Christiansen! >>> I'm trying to make sshd to do key based authentication. >>> I am guessing that is probably a problem of permissions but can't figure >>> it out. >>> All I found was this email: >>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-11/msg00212.html >>> which basically says RTFM >>> Well, I did RTFM, I followed the instructions. all looks OK as far as I >>> can see but still no go. >> Read logs on both sides, of course. >> The most common issue is access rights on key files. > Check for PubkeyAuthentication, StrictModes, AllowUsers, AllowGroups, > AuthorizedKeysFile in the server side (whether they exist and how they are > defined), read the manpage for detailed info on this options > (sshd_config(5)). > Try setting LogLevel to DEBUG. > Provide a 'ssh -vvv user@host' test connection. > You don't give enough info to figure out what the problem might be. > -- Nihil verus. Omnia possibilis. -- 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
