ssh vs. ~/.ssh

Peter Buckley peter.buckley@cportcorp.com
Fri Oct 12 11:17:00 GMT 2001 

Along the same lines of the /<missing>/d/home 
idea, have you tried setting your home directory 
to a dir on the linux box? Maybe cygwin ssh is 
converting /d/home to /cygdrive/d/home and the 
linux box doesn't grok /cygdrive, since it isn't 
*really* a directory, and the linux box can't look 
there for your identity files?

HTH,
Peter

Scott Evans wrote:
> 
> > What about your mount table? Could there
> > perhaps be an entry like
> >
> > //d/home /d/home
> 
> Good idea, but no... the only mount points are /c and /d
> (mapped to c:/ and d:/).
> 
> I searched through the whole registry for "//d" but there's
> nothing there.
> 
> > Maybe there is a directory missing- the way
> > /<missing>/d/home can show up as //d/home.
> > Try to do a cygdrive path- set your home
> > directory in /etc/passwd to /cygdrive/d/home
> > and see where that takes you.
> 
> That's an interesting idea too... and I have actually tried that.
> But when I change /etc/password to /cygdrive/d/scott, the relevant
> line in the "ssh -vvv" output is still:
>   debug1: identity file //d/scott/.ssh/identity type -1
> 
> Very strange!  I can't figure out where ssh is getting this value.
> 
> (Thanks for your help though, Peter, much appreciated.)
> 
> scott
> 
> > Scott Evans wrote:
> > >
> > > Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear.  I'm trying to connect to another machine
> > > (a linux machine, actually) -- I'm only using the ssh *client* on cygwin,
> > > not the server.
> > >
> > > I know that //d is outdated.  But the weird thing is that //d doesn't
> > > appear in any configuration files anywhere!
> > >
> > > > //d is the now outdated way that you could have
> > > > accessed local drives "as network shares". This
> > > > has been removed from cygwin IIRC since 1.3.2?
> > > >
> > > > Did you install SSHD as a service in the past?
> > > > I think you have to "remove the service" and then
> > > > install the new ssh as a service for things to
> > > > work correctly.
> > > >
> > > > Have you restarted the service since you changed
> > > > /etc/passwd?
> > > >
> > > > Have you modified the cygdrive prefix that mount
> > > > uses? Or did you mount your own home directory?
> > > >
> > > > HTH,
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > > Scott Evans wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I just upgraded to the latest Cygwin and I'm having problems connecting
> > > > > via ssh without typing in my password.  This worked before.
> > > > >
> > > > > The first thing I found was that the latest ssh uses the home directory
> > > > > from my /etc/passwd file.  I don't believe the older one did that.
> > > > > So I modified my /etc/passwd to point at my local home directory (rather
> > > > > than the network home directory it pointed at before).  Still no love.
> > > > > But now, when I run ssh -vvv, I see that one check is looking for my
> > > > > identity file in //d/scott, rather than /d/scott.  I'll paste the
> > > > > output below.
> > > > >
> > > > > Note that if I use "ssh -i /d/scott/.ssh/identity", things work fine.
> > > > >
> > > > > Where is this "//d" value coming from?  HOME is set to /d/scott, my
> > > > > passwd entry says /d/scott, and I have nothing anywhere that says
> > > > > //d/scott.  Any ideas?
> > > > >
> > > > > [scott] $ ssh -vvv scott@dib
> > > > > OpenSSH_2.9.9p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f
> > > > > debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
> > > > > debug1: Applying options for *
> > > > > debug1: Seeding random number generator
> > > > > debug1: Rhosts Authentication disabled, originating port will not be
> > > > > trusted.
> > > > > debug1: restore_uid
> > > > > debug1: ssh_connect: getuid 12122 geteuid 12122 anon 1
> > > > > debug1: Connecting to dib [192.168.1.2] port 22.
> > > > > debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 12122/10513 (e=12122)
> > > > > debug1: restore_uid
> > > > > debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 12122/10513 (e=12122)
> > > > > debug1: restore_uid
> > > > > debug1: Connection established.
> > > > > debug1: identity file //d/scott/.ssh/identity type -1
> > > > > debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version
> > > > > OpenSSH_2.5.2p2
> > > > > debug1: match: OpenSSH_2.5.2p2 pat ^OpenSSH_2\.5\.[012]
> > > > > debug1: Local version string SSH-1.5-OpenSSH_2.9.9p2
> > > > > debug1: Waiting for server public key.
> > > > > debug1: Received server public key (768 bits) and host key (1024 bits).
> > > > > debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /d/scott/.ssh/known_hosts2
> > > > > debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /etc/ssh_known_hosts2
> > > > > debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /d/scott/.ssh/known_hosts2
> > > > > debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /etc/ssh_known_hosts2
> > > > > debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /d/scott/.ssh/known_hosts
> > > > > debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: match line 1
> > > > > debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: filename /d/scott/.ssh/known_hosts
> > > > > debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: match line 1
> > > > > debug1: Host 'dib' is known and matches the RSA1 host key.
> > > > > debug1: Found key in /d/scott/.ssh/known_hosts:1
> > > > > debug1: Encryption type: 3des
> > > > > debug1: Sent encrypted session key.
> > > > > debug1: Installing crc compensation attack detector.
> > > > > debug1: Received encrypted confirmation.
> > > > > debug1: Doing password authentication.
> > > > > scott@dib's password:
> > > > >
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