Re: adding an ID with ssh password authentication broken passwordless authentication

[John Ward <ingops at gmail dot com>]

Andrew DeFaria <Andrew <at> DeFaria.com> writes:

> It's hard to tell what you did wrong when you did not give us the exact 
> steps of what you did.

I created a new local ID on a 2003 server.  Then I logged in with that ID on the
server and started a Cygwin session.  It gave the message "Your group is
currently "mkpasswd" and recommended running mkpasswd and mkgroup.  I did that
by running "mkpasswd -l" and "mkgroup -l".  I dont know if that was needed or
not.  I was able to successfully ssh from a different server into the 2003
server by providing the password.

Now it appears the all of the accounts on the 2003 server are asking for a
password (instead of using the keys previously setup and that were working for
passwordless authentication).

John Ward




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