Re: adding an ID with ssh password authentication broken passwordless authentication

2012-09-14 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 9/14/2012 9:00 AM, John Ward wrote: John Ward gmail.com> writes: I finally figured it out. It actually was a problem with a domain account that I broke when I ran "mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd" to make sure the new local account existed in the passwd file (obviously removing the Domain account

Re: adding an ID with ssh password authentication broken passwordless authentication

2012-09-14 Thread Sean Murphy
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:00 PM, John Ward wrote: > John Ward gmail.com> writes: (edit) > Can anyone recommend a "cygwin for dummies" site, or a list of great resources > to learn more? > > Thanks > > John Ward Starting with the manual is always recommended. Handily contained on site at cygw

Re: adding an ID with ssh password authentication broken passwordless authentication

2012-09-14 Thread John Ward
John Ward gmail.com> writes: I finally figured it out. It actually was a problem with a domain account that I broke when I ran "mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd" to make sure the new local account existed in the passwd file (obviously removing the Domain account in the process). So I identified the is

Re: adding an ID with ssh password authentication broken passwordless authentication

2012-09-14 Thread John Ward
Andrew DeFaria DeFaria.com> writes: > It's hard to tell what you did wrong when you did not give us the exact > steps of what you did. I created a new local ID on a 2003 server. Then I logged in with that ID on the server and started a Cygwin session. It gave the message "Your group is curren

Re: adding an ID with ssh password authentication broken passwordless authentication

2012-09-14 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 09/14/2012 06:11 AM, John Ward wrote: I am very green with Cygwin and inherited a system where we had ssh passwordless authentication working with dsa keys. I needed to create a new ID that required a password and I was successfully able to do that, but it appears I broke the passwordless aut

adding an ID with ssh password authentication broken passwordless authentication

2012-09-14 Thread John Ward
I am very green with Cygwin and inherited a system where we had ssh passwordless authentication working with dsa keys. I needed to create a new ID that required a password and I was successfully able to do that, but it appears I broke the passwordless authentication in the process, as those accoun