Greetings, Andrea Venturoli! > I'm trying to set up sshd on a Windows 2003 domain controller. > Everything works with password authentication; however I need this for a > script, so, in order to get non-interactive login, I must use keys. > Tried as hard as I could, but I could not achieve this: I'm always asked > for a password.
> I read several posts which say I need to use local accounts, not domain > accounts; however, the machine being a DC, I don't have Local security > policy or Local users in Control panel or Administrative tool. > So, this is the fragment from my /etc/passwd: >> sshd:unused:2259:513:sshd >> privsep,U-MYDOMAIN\sshd,S-X-X-XX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXX:/var/empty:/bin/false >> cyg_server:unused:2265:513:cyg_server,U-MYDOMAIN\cyg_server,S-X-X-XX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXXX-XXXX:/home/cyg_server:/bin/bash > "ssh -vvv" suggest the key is presented to the server, but key > authentication does not succeed anyway. Nothing special is logged > server-side and ssh moves on to password authentiation. > On with the questions... > Is this supposed to work? Several posts say so, but no one mentions a > domain controller... Does it bring in anything special? Not that I know of. > Are the above users correct? Any problem with it? They are irrelevant. Both only used to start up the service. > What are correct ownership and permissions of /home, /home/myuser, > /home/myuser/.ssh and /home/myuser/.ssh/authorized_keys? sshd only check permissions on $HOME/.ssh and authorized_keys (as far as I'm aware) - they need to be (as a safest bet) owned by user logging in and don't have write permission by anyone except the owner (and SYSTEM). > According to some how-tos, ssh-host-confing should have prompted with > "CYGWIN=" and I should have replied "tty ntsec", Long time gone. http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html#cygwinenv-removed-options > but this did not > happen. Other how-tos suggest putting this variable in the environment. > Is this information current or obsolete? I tried and it didn't seem to > matter... > Any other hint? Did you installed Cygwin LSA module? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-nopasswd2 -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 18.11.2013, <12:13> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
