password authentication fails in cygwin openssh windows xp pro

[Dan Miller]

René Berber wrote:
> Dan Miller wrote:
>
>   
>> Path statement appears fine. I think I'm missing something here. Isn't
>> it wierd that it is looking in /home/dan for keys and identities when
>> I'm logging in as the new user "fshd"?
>>     
>
> No, that is the way ssh works: you are user "dan" trying to login as user "fshd"
> to somewhere, so it uses (local) dan keys and (remote) fshd authorized_keys.
>
>   
>> I ran mkpasswd and mkgroup to
>> /etc/passwd and /etc/group and when I ssh localhost -l fshd it seems to
>> login and authenticate the password but then closes immediately.
>>     
>
> That's what the log showed.
>
>   
>> I'm wondering if it is looking for the .bash files and not finding them
>> ...ie file not found....and then closing. I copied the .bash files from
>> skel but that didn't solve the problem.
>>     
>
> No, that's no it.
>
>   
>> is this the problem?
>> debug3: channel 0: close_fds r -1 w -1 e 6 c -1
>> debug3: fd 1 is not O_NONBLOCK
>> debug3: fd 2 is not O_NONBLOCK
>> Connection to localhost closed.
>>     
>
> No.
>
>   
>> I just want to be able to login to this server as user fshd. fshd is
>> currently a user in windows, and member of the "users" group
>>     
>
> And it is almost working, it does log in, what happens next is what fails.  That
> means it can't execute the shell, did you change permissions? remember when you
> said you made /bin/bash 0700 (which doesn't allow execution by any other user
> different from the one that installed Cygwin)?
>   
Rene,

I got it working. It was completely due to permissions restrictions I 
had placed on the FSHD user. A few modifications and it logs in fine 
now. In particular (for anyone playing along at home) I used windows to 
change folder access permissions to cygwin folder, bin, and home 
directories. Thank you very much for you help. I've been working on this 
for a while.

Dan

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