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Re: SSH: The authenticity of host XXX can't be established
Kai Schlichting wrote:
> Markus Schönhaber schrieb:
> >> I think, now it's all like you say, but same problems:
> >> RootUserName # ls -al /home/_Kai_/
> >
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > What's this?
>
> because my SSH is installed on an Eisfair-Server, my rootusername is
> eis. I wrote RootUserName so that you know, that i was logged on as
> root. The actual command line was
> eis # ls -al /home/_Kai_/
>
> >> total 12
> >> drwxrwxrwx 3 _Kai_ users 4096 Aug 16 14:27 .
> >> drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Aug 11 23:38 ..
> >> drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Aug 16 14:27 .ssh
> >
> > Why is .ssh owned by "root"? Is this really your Cygwin machine?
>
> I was logged on as root when i created /home/_Kai_/.ssh... The Windows
> machine with Cygwin and the Server with Linux/ Eisfair/ SSH are both my
> machines.
Once again: ssh must be able to create /home/_Kai_/.ssh on the machine where
you issue the ssh command, i. e. the Cygwin machine. Creating those files on
the machine you want to connect to, won't help.
Regards
mks
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