Re: Strange problem wiith Cygwin ssh

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Bindaas Guy wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm new to this list...and Cygwin, so sorry if this is
> an old problem...bit iguess there's no better place to
> get cygwin answers than this list :-)
> Here's my problem-  I have 2 Win2K Adv Server machine
> with NTFS drives running Cygwin. sshd is running on
> both.CYGWIN=ntsec. I have run ssh-keygen to generate
> keys and have set up to be able to log in without
> password... I CAN log in and run most programs like
> cmd etc, but running a certain setup.exe fails with
> $?=67....However if i use password authentication
> instead of the keys for ssh, setup.exe runs
> successfully...Note however that both ways of
> authentication allow me to run other programs...the
> user i use is part of "Administrators " and can "log
> in as service" and "act as part of OS" on both
> machines... I then tried creating a local user who is
> only part of "Users" and tried running setup.exe from
> that id. It failed with error 67 again. This leads me
> to believe there is some problem with the RSA
> authentication????Here is what i did to set up
> password-less login - On one machine , i ran
> ssh-keygen -t rsa -P "". then copied id_rsa.pub to
> authorized_keys and copied the 3 files to ~/.ssh
> directory... Also copied ALL THREE files to ~/.ssh for
> same user on the other machine... Also,
> StrictHostKeyChecking is set to "no" in ~/.ssh/config
> file.
> Thanks in advance for your help.

Does <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-RELEASE1.3.3> help
explain things?
	Igor
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