Launching TightVNC over ssh using cygwin

I'm using TightVNC on a remote windows machine for maintenance purposes, communicating via an ssh tunnel (sshd installed using cygwin). Everything works when I start TightVNC as a Windows service, but I'd like to leave TightVNC turned completely off, and only launch it when I need it. To do t

Re: sshd: public key working, but can't get passwords working

I finally figured it out. When I set up Windows, I was asked for an administrative password, and gave one. Then I was asked for a default username. I didn't know that by default Windows creates users with no password, and that I had to explicitly set the password for each user. So, that user ha

Re: sshd: public key working, but can't get passwords working

At 8:36 AM -0500 7/30/07, Michael Hipp wrote: Daniel Griscom wrote: At 7:32 PM -0500 7/29/07, René Berber wrote: Back to the original problem: did you use ssh-user-config? (I guess you did since you had to copy the public key). No; I'd thought that ssh-user-config was to configu

Re: sshd: public key working, but can't get passwords working

At 7:32 PM -0500 7/29/07, René Berber wrote: Back to the original problem: did you use ssh-user-config? (I guess you did since you had to copy the public key). No; I'd thought that ssh-user-config was to configure an account that was to be an ssh client (e.g. one within which I'd use ssh to

Re: sshd: public key working, but can't get passwords working

At 6:19 PM -0500 7/29/07, René Berber wrote: Daniel Griscom wrote: [snip] Look at the log (Windows' event viewer), what's the error sent when you try to login? Just what you'd expect: "Failed password for development from 192.168.1.101 port 1121 ssh2". Do yo

Re: sshd: public key working, but can't get passwords working

At 3:31 PM -0500 7/29/07, René Berber wrote: Daniel Griscom wrote: I have openssh version 4.6p1-1 installed under WinXP SP2 with all updates. I've successfully used ssh-host-config to set up sshd (privilege separation on, local user sshd created, sshd run as service, "CYGWIN

sshd: public key working, but can't get passwords working

I have openssh version 4.6p1-1 installed under WinXP SP2 with all updates. I've successfully used ssh-host-config to set up sshd (privilege separation on, local user sshd created, sshd run as service, "CYGWIN=ntsec tty"; sshd started with "net start sshd"; all done under the administrative acco