I feel like a terrier peeling away an onion. Darn it, this is going to work!
I agree with your comment about being in the weeds and started over, in the process discovering why HOME was set improperly (using the domain switch for mkpasswd instead of local). I reinstalled ssh, re-ran ssh-host-config, and now am in this situation: I can ssh in, but only using public key authentication. Passwords do not work (and they must for this application). When I use a password, the login process seems like it's working - I see the MOTD, but am immediately disconnected. The server logs simply state that the client disconnected. The client -vvv option shows this (everything before MOTD not shown): -I have tried temporarily removing my .bashrc, .profile and so on, but this does not change the issue. -.ssh is owned by me and is mode 700; all .ssh contents are owned by me and are mode 600 -I've issued "chmod 600 /etc/ssh*" -I've manually examined all binaries in /bin, /usr/bin, and /usr/sbin to verify that they have reasonable modes and owners (all are owned by me (an administrative user), and all are mode 755) -I own my directory in /home and it has mode 755 -I am not using PAM -Passwords are not turned off in /etc/sshd_config Attached is the output of cygcheck. cygcheck.txt <http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/file/n104282/cygcheck.txt> -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/ssh-logon-failure-tp57002p104282.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
