Re: Passwordless sftp with ssh 5.9 still asks for password

2011-11-30 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> Last time I checked, $HOME in newly installed Cygwin point to the >> $USERPROFILE >> Which is, quite, logical. > Just to be clear, that's not done by the Cygwin DLL. When setting HOME, > the order is very simple: > - If $HOME is already set in the environment, l

Re: Passwordless sftp with ssh 5.9 still asks for password

2011-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 30 12:38, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Warren Young! > > >> Accept the default > >> key location, C:\Documents and Settings\nhuser\.ssh\id_dsa, > > > Why would that be the default location, if you are using Cygwin tools? > > Shouldn't it be something like c:\cygwin\home\nhuser\.ssh\..

Re: Passwordless sftp with ssh 5.9 still asks for password

2011-11-30 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Warren Young wrote: > On 11/29/2011 2:49 PM, Andrew Erskine wrote: >> >> ssh-keygen -t dsa > > "-t [keytype]" is a default flag these days, and it defaults to RSA, not > DSA.  Unless you know for a fact you need DSA keys for some odd reason, > leave this flag off

Re: Passwordless sftp with ssh 5.9 still asks for password

2011-11-30 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Warren Young! >> Accept the default >> key location, C:\Documents and Settings\nhuser\.ssh\id_dsa, > Why would that be the default location, if you are using Cygwin tools? > Shouldn't it be something like c:\cygwin\home\nhuser\.ssh\...? Why? > You can change your HOME to anything yo

Re: Passwordless sftp with ssh 5.9 still asks for password

2011-11-29 Thread Warren Young
On 11/29/2011 2:49 PM, Andrew Erskine wrote: ssh-keygen -t dsa "-t [keytype]" is a default flag these days, and it defaults to RSA, not DSA. Unless you know for a fact you need DSA keys for some odd reason, leave this flag off and accept the default. (ssh itself doesn't care what kind of