On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:37:11AM -0500, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > chmod 700 ~ && \ ^^^^^^^^^^^ This is your problem. By setting home and .ssh to 700 you disallow sshd to stat() ~/.ssh. Cygwin has two chances to retrieve information about a file or directory, by either calling FindFileFirst() or by trying to open the file and calling various Win32 access functions.
FindFileFirst() requires to have read permissions on the parent directory, opening the file/dir requires read permissions on it. If home as well as .ssh are 700, sshd has neither of these rights ==> The check for .ssh fails. Qed, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@;cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/