At 10:14 AM 6/15/2005, you wrote: >I have been trying to connect to OpenSSH on my Windows 2003 Server system >using public key authentication. I have tried using both sftp and ssh. In both >cases the verbose output shows that the authentication succeeded okay, but the >session itself just seems to die with an "Exit status 255" message (followed >by "Connection closed" for sftp). >
<snip> >Is there some additional configuration I need to attempt on my server to make >this all work? I am running the CYGWIN sshd service under the Local System >account on the server. The Local System account does not have the permissions necessary to permit pubkey authentication to work on W2K3. Did you install with ssh-host-config and ssh-user-config? ssh-host-config will ask you if you want to create the "sshd_server" user that will have the proper permissions to permit pubkey authentication. See 'usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README' for more details. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
