At 10:39 AM 6/15/2005, you wrote: >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.
I should also point out that OpenSSH 3.7.1p2 is very old now. The current version is 4.1p1-1. It may be that ssh-host-config doesn't have the option to create the "sshd_server" user in that version. I don't remember. If it does not, all the more reason to upgrade. ;-) > -- 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/
