adding an ID with ssh password authentication broken passwordless authentication

Andrew DeFaria Andrew@DeFaria.com
Fri Sep 14 14:16:00 GMT 2012


On 09/14/2012 06:11 AM, John Ward wrote:
> I am very green with Cygwin and inherited a system where we had ssh passwordless
> authentication working with dsa keys.
>
> I needed to create a new ID that required a password and I was successfully able
> to do that, but it appears I broke the passwordless authentication in the
> process, as those accounts are no longer working.
>
> Has anyone encountered this?   If so, where did I go wrong and how can I fix it?
It's hard to tell what you did wrong when you did not give us the exact 
steps of what you did.
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
The other day I was playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house 
and four people died.


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