Daniel Griscom wrote: [snip] >> Do you happen to have a domain user as well as a local user? > > I don't know the difference. I'm not at the machine now, but it's a > vanilla Windows installation. All machines on my network are in > workgroup MSHOME. I created one account when installing windows, > "development". I told ssh-host-config to create the sshd user, but I > don't know of any other users created. > > How would I test this?
What I meant is that you could have a user named development as a local user, and (a different) domain-user with the same name. I did not mean a "domain" user, just if there was several "development" users. It looks like the answer is no. Back to the original problem: did you use ssh-user-config? (I guess you did since you had to copy the public key). What you reported about the log is simple, the password used is not correct... it should prompt you 3 times and then close the connection; or the configuration does not allow password authentication, let's check this last one: In /etc/sshd_config you should have: #PasswordAuthentication yes #PermitEmptyPasswords no #UsePAM no Those are the defaults, that's why they are commented. -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/