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Re: ssh keeps asking password
- To: cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: ssh keeps asking password
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:30:40 +0100
- References: <1F8B49DD9100D31195FC00A0C94989FE159616@obelix>
- Reply-To: "'cygwin'" <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> Mmm. I started sshd on the remote machine as root and still it asks for my
Ah, you're asking for a connection from Cygwin to another non-Cygwin
machine, are you? I misinterpreted your question.
> password. The output of ssh -v remotehost is below. Can you give me an idea
> in which direction I have to look for an answer?
I can think of three possible problems (assuming the remote machine is
non-Cygwin):
- The sshd on the remote side blocks RSA authentication completely.
Look into the remote sshd_config file.
- Your Cygwin user name doesn't match your remote user name. Use
the -l option or a Host/User setting in your .ssh/config file.
- The permissions of your home directory, .ssh subdirectory and/or
subordered files are too relaxed for the remote sshd. As a
standard rule, you should make your directories and files not group
and/or world writable and your private key files not group and/or
world readable.
Hope, that helps,
Corinna
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