SSH: The authenticity of host XXX can't be established

[Markus Schönhaber]

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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