Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:02:23 +0000 Message-ID: <8128-Thu28Mar2002150223+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 To: Daniel Holtkamp Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: ntsec, ssh and cygwin In-Reply-To: <10911087122.20020328154252@riege.com> References: <10911087122.20020328154252@riege.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g2SF3Or13879 On Thursday 28 Mar 02, Daniel Holtkamp writes: > Hello everyone, > > I´m using cygwin for some time now but today i ran into a problem. > I´ve got a user-request that they want to be able to scp files to a > host without entering their password everytime. No problem i > thought, deploy the public-key on the server and that should do it, > but it won´t work. Well there's a bit more to it than that but we don't know if you did the steps or not. I don't think that ntsec is a prerequisite for using ssh-agent. I found it to be a prerequisite for logging in to my domain account, but that's another story. > I´ve read some manual stuff and came to the conclusion that i > should use the ntsec variable. I do this because i think the > problem lies with the file-permissions on the ~/.ssh/id_rsa file > (group and world readable). Well, no problem, set the variable, > fire up cygwin and what happens ? Everything is messed up, can´t > even write to my home-directory anymore. I think it´s because i´m a > domain-user and not the local computer user. I reinstalled Cygwin > several times and always ran into the same problem. (Domain user is > not included in /etc/passwd ... only the local ones). So add it then. Use mkpasswd -d & mkgroup -d to determine the right entries. David -- 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/