This is the mail archive of the cygwin@cygwin.com mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]

Re: OpenSSH and RSA authentication problems


David-

Have you checked http://tech.erdelynet.com- 
Mike Erdely knows a *little* about ssh and cygwin, 
and he has an SSH mailing list as well. 

HTH,
Peter

"David J. Wilson" wrote:
> 
> Following up...
> 
> The two accounts I am dealing with are 'Administrator' and 'vlastyn'.  My
> test involved running the server as vlastyn, and setting up identical configs
> for each user (i.e. running ssh-user-config as each user and answering yes
> to each question).
> 
> When trying to login as vlastyn, it works as described.  Here is what the
> debugging output of the server shows:
> 
> debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
> Accepted publickey for vlastyn from 127.0.0.1 port 3503 ssh2
> debug1: Entering interactive session for SSH2.
> 
> Attempting to login with Administrator, however, doesn't work:
> 
> debug1: ssh_dss_verify: signature correct
> Failed publickey for Administrator from 127.0.0.1 port 4453 ssh2
> 
> Naturally this makes sense, because my vlastyn account probably doesn't have
> the right privileges to switch user context.  The point is that I can't use
> RSA with *either* account when it's running as SYSTEM, which obviously is
> able to switch context or else password authentication wouldn't work.  So,
> does anyone have any idea what's happening?
> 
> David
> 
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:36:53AM -0400, David J. Wilson wrote:
> >
> > Later tonight I'm going to try and run it under my own account and then
> > login as someone else to see the debugging output.  For now I know that
> > it doesn't work for anyone at all when it's running as a service (which
> > I believe runs as the system account), and that it works fine if I run
> > it with my account and login with the same.
> >
> 
> --
> Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
> Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
> Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
> FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

-- 
Your mouse has moved.
Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect.
Reboot now?  [OK]

--

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]