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Re: SSH publickey problem, password works (Win 2003, OpenSSH_5.1p1, Cygwin DLL1.5.25 )
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:20:26 -0400
- Subject: Re: SSH publickey problem, password works (Win 2003, OpenSSH_5.1p1, Cygwin DLL1.5.25 )
- References: <48C640CF.6060809@scn.org>
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Just Me wrote:
> I've been fighting with SSH for a week now, I've read everything I can
> google, it's finally time to ask for help.
>
> I can ssh to any account using a password, no problem. It bombs with a
> cannot seteuid error in the event log when I use a keypair.
Are you sure the seteuid error is the important one?
> The permissions of /home/sfinfo are 755
Acceptable.
> The permissions of /home/sfinfo/.ssh are 755
Bzzt.
> The permissions of /home/sfinfo/.ssh/authorized_keys are 644
Bzzt.
The symptoms you describe are not what I would expect, but I'm pretty
sure this will definitely not work unless the permissions on .ssh are
0700 and those on .ssh/authorized_keys are 0600.
> The authorized_keys file contains one DSA public key.
OK.
> The permissions on the private key, sfinfo_id_dsa are 600.
...the private key is, of course, on the system you're ssh'ing *from*
while the authorized_keys file is on the system you're ssh'ing *to*,
correct?
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