1.7.5 ssh no longer functions after upgrade from 1.5

[Corinna Vinschen]

On May 14 15:23, Matthias Meyer wrote:
> 1) usernames in v1.5 are case insensitive but not in v1.7.5. e.g. ssh
> Meyer@cygwinhost is not the same as ssh meyer@cygwinhost

This has nothing to do with Cygwin 1.7.  It was a security change in
OpenSSH 5.4p1:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2010-03/msg00007.html

> 2) sshd_config:
> "AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys" is not the same
> as "#AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys".

This was a generic bug in OpenSSH 5.4 which has been fixed in the 5.5
release: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2010-04/msg00026.html


Corinna

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