Re: Connection closed message when trying to connect with sftp using public key authentication to OpenSSH 3.7.1p2 on Windows 2003 Server

[Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>]

At 10:14 AM 6/15/2005, you wrote:
>I have been trying to connect to OpenSSH on my Windows 2003 Server system using public key authentication. I have tried using both sftp and ssh. In both cases the verbose output shows that the authentication succeeded okay, but the session itself just seems to die with an "Exit status 255" message (followed by "Connection closed" for sftp).
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>Is there some additional configuration I need to attempt on my server to make this all work? I am running the CYGWIN sshd service under the Local System account on the server. 


The Local System account does not have the permissions necessary to permit
pubkey authentication to work on W2K3.  Did you install with ssh-host-config
and ssh-user-config?  ssh-host-config will ask you if you want to create the 
"sshd_server" user that will have the proper permissions to permit pubkey 
authentication.  See 'usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README' for more details.

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