First off, thanks for your response and I apologize for my late reply.
On 03/09/2017 06:21 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2017-03-09 15:58, Daniel Santos wrote:
This is just a minor annoyance. When I start a mintty session and
even if I type bash -l or basy -li, I don't get my /etc/profile
sourced and I have to manually do it each time I log in. Any idea
what's causing that?
Cygwin/bash/mintty shortcut properties or command line should have
"-" at end e.g.
"C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -"
Yes, I have verified that.
Otherwise does it have Windows line endings or permissions too open?
Windows line endings where? Also, please be a little more specific
about permissions. On what file(s) are you referring to? How could
this happen if they are "too open"? Usually, permissions being too open
just results in a big security hole. Does Cygwin do some type of
detection of this and crap out w/o a proper error message if some
permissions are too open?
Possibly related, sshd doesn't seem to be reading my
~/.ssh/authorized_keys because I have to type my password every time
I ssh in.
Windows line endings or permissions too open on directory
(s/b drwx------) or private key files, config, known_hosts,
authorized_keys (s/b _rw-------)?
Again, permissions too open w/o an error message? I did not explicitly
modify the permissions and the .ssh directory was created by
ssh-keygen. I did try to modify the permissions in Windows explorer,
but I only seemed to bungle things up and now I have the "properties"
dialogue for the .ssh directory stuck open (cannot close it) and I can't
reboot yet because I'm running tests, so this may have to wait a little bit.
Also, the sshd server does need to access my .ssh directory and my
id_rsa.pub, but I don't seem to understand nt security anymore.
Could sshd config have disabled allowing personal config files
(common on corporate servers - have to talk to admins)?
This is a fresh install of Cygwin on a freshly installed Windows 7.
If you have a passphrase on your key, you could use ssh-agent
and ssh-add to avoid reverifying credentials on each connection.
I did not use a passphrase.
Do you also need host keys in /etc/ssh_known_hosts or
~/.ssh/known_hosts as well as your PPK pair?
Well, known_hosts doesn't matter on the server side and I have already
added the Windows 7 key to my known_hosts file on my GNU/Linux client.
I'm not using Putty, et. al., so I don't have a PPK file.
I suppose I can live with the inconvenience for now. Thanks for your tips.
Daniel
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