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Re: OpenSSH and RSA authentication problems



David J. Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 12:53:22PM -0400, Peter Buckley wrote:
> > 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. 
> 
> I followed the instructions on his site with no luck.  One thing I noticed--
> part of it said to change permissions and ownership (chown and chmod).  Is
> this supposed to have any noticable effect ?
> 
> Take this for instance:
> [vlastyn@sundown:~] touch example_file
> [vlastyn@sundown:~] ls -la example_file
>    0 -rw-r--r--    1 vlastyn  None            0 Oct  4 22:24 example_file
> [vlastyn@sundown:~] chown system.system example_file
> [vlastyn@sundown:~] chmod 777 example_file
> [vlastyn@sundown:~] ls -la example_file
>    0 -rw-r--r--    1 vlastyn  None            0 Oct  4 22:24 example_file
> [vlastyn@sundown:~]
> 
> I am of course running NTFS and with an up-to-date /etc/passwd and 
> /etc/group.  I looked at the permissions with the GUI and they didn't
> show any change either.  

Did you set CYGWIN=ntsec in your environment?

Daniel.

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