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Re: RSA authentication


On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 05:21:58PM +0100, Mag. M. Faffelberger wrote:
> but what i still didn't get is the following:
> - i have to run the sshd as a nt service, which is no problem (srvany.exe,
> regedit entries ok)
> - i have to be logged in as administrator in the system, because of many
> other services
> - as a service everything works fine as long as i log in as administrator
> - but i can't log on as "ksvsafequick"
> 	- i ran the service both as "administrator" or as "ksvsafequick" -users,
> both failed.
> 	- i also tried every possible combination of ownerships of the files
> (host_key, identity, authorized_keys, ...)

You can log in using RSA only to the user account which has started
sshd. So if you need to logon as admin, start sshd as service under
admin account. Any other user has to use password authentication
or has to get it's own sshd running on another port than 22.

> - what is the "mode, you mentioned it has to be 644? what is 644?

The POSIX file mode set by chmod.

Corinna

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