Re: SSH Key Authentication is not working

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

On 10/14/2013 6:11 PM, Tadej Animalix wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm turning here for help since I have a feeling that I searched the
> whole web and I didn't find a solution.
>
> I use CYGWIN on Windows 7 to allow connections via SSH, and it works
> OK if I use username and password for authentication, but it doesn't
> work with key authentication.
>
> At first I noticed that Putty log contains this events
> ("SSH2_MSG_USERAUTH_REQUEST" sent as last message):
>      Event Log: Offered public key
>      Event Log: Server unexpectedly closed network connection
>
>
> In sshd.log I found that this error was recorded:
>        "0 [main] sshd 20872 fork: child -1 - forked process 17012 died
> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC000007B, errno 11"
>
>
> I looked further and I found that in Windows "Event Viewer" error gets
> reported by sshd:
>      "The description for Event ID 0 from source sshd cannot be found.
> Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your
> local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or
> repair the component on the local computer.
>
>      If the event originated on another computer, the display
> information had to be saved with the event.
>
>      The following information was included with the event:
>
>      sshd: PID 17112: fatal: seteuid 1000: Operation not permitted"
>
> I found a guy who had similar problem
> (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-06/msg00316.html), and there they
> mention "there is no solution" for this problem, so I was wondering if
> that's true?

You have a different error code so it's not clear that this is the
same case.

> Could someone please push me into the right direction?

Sure.  Let's start here:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Include how you've configured 'sshd' and your cygcheck output in your
follow-up.

--
Larry

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