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Re: adding an ID with ssh password authentication broken passwordless authentication
Andrew DeFaria <Andrew <at> DeFaria.com> writes:
> It's hard to tell what you did wrong when you did not give us the exact
> steps of what you did.
I created a new local ID on a 2003 server. Then I logged in with that ID on the
server and started a Cygwin session. It gave the message "Your group is
currently "mkpasswd" and recommended running mkpasswd and mkgroup. I did that
by running "mkpasswd -l" and "mkgroup -l". I dont know if that was needed or
not. I was able to successfully ssh from a different server into the 2003
server by providing the password.
Now it appears the all of the accounts on the 2003 server are asking for a
password (instead of using the keys previously setup and that were working for
passwordless authentication).
John Ward
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