On 6/04/2012 08:44, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Rurik Christiansen!
[...] >> and my understanding is that I can't run the sshd frontend without >> screwing the permissions. > I don't understand what you mean by this. >From an earlier mail on this list: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-11/msg00212.html I cite: "Ugh! This suggests that you have not read OpenSSH readme in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin. You can't do this without screwing up all the permissions on various directories and files that SSH checks the permissions of." >> (the client sends the publickey packet and then jumps to next auth method) > This looks exactly like wrong permissions on authorized_keys file, or > absence of it for particular user. "Palm slap over forehead" :) ... Yes that was it. > Also, please don't top-post. Sorry, sometimes I forget to switch contexts :) All the best and thanks -- Nihil verus. Omnia possibilis. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple