Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Just Me wrote: > >> I've been fighting with SSH for a week now, I've read everything I can >> google, it's finally time to ask for help. >> >> I can ssh to any account using a password, no problem. It bombs with a >> cannot seteuid error in the event log when I use a keypair. >> > > Are you sure the seteuid error is the important one? > > >> The permissions of /home/sfinfo are 755 >> > Acceptable. > > >> The permissions of /home/sfinfo/.ssh are 755 >> > Bzzt. > > >> The permissions of /home/sfinfo/.ssh/authorized_keys are 644 >> > Bzzt. > > The symptoms you describe are not what I would expect, but I'm pretty > sure this will definitely not work unless the permissions on .ssh are > 0700 and those on .ssh/authorized_keys are 0600. > > >> The authorized_keys file contains one DSA public key. >> > OK. > > >> The permissions on the private key, sfinfo_id_dsa are 600. >> > > ...the private key is, of course, on the system you're ssh'ing *from* > while the authorized_keys file is on the system you're ssh'ing *to*, > correct? > > -- > 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/ > > > > I'm not sure if it's the important error. I just noticed that the event viewer is throwing a message that says "syslogin_perform_logout: logout()returned an error."
Changed the permissions as listed. No luck. And yes, the private key is on the from box. I've been bitten by that one before. -- 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/
