cvs/ssh and rsa based authentication
Bjoern Kahl AG Resy
kahl@informatik.uni-kl.de
Wed Dec 5 04:39:00 GMT 2001
Hallo !
Just a guess:
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Andreas Schorr wrote:
> Unfortunately the same thing doesn't work, if I login to the
> same server from a Windows 2000 client using Cygwin.
> Although I have created another public/secret key pair on
> the Windows 2000 system and put the public key into the
> ~/.ssh/autorized_keys file on the cvs server, I'm still asked
> for my ssh password, each time I send a cvs command or
> each time I try to login to the server via ssh directly. This
> happens even if I use the ssh option -i (with which you can
> specify the path to your secret key directly).
Did you enable RSAAuthentication in your ssh *client* ?
IIRC cygwins ssh-client has RSAAuthentication disabled by
default (because you *need* a password for a full
user-context-switch).
Try adding "-o RSAAuthentication" to your ssh-client
commandline.
Bjoern
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