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 Message-ID: <3F43C6F2.81AF4EA7@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:07:30 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... X-Accept-Language: en,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh does not find the config file? References: <200308201548.h7KFm3F14468@utah.> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bursian Achim wrote: > > Hi, > I encounter strange things with ssh. I have a configfile under > $HOME/.ssh: > > -rw------- 1 BA3759 1.1k Aug 20 17:34 config > -rw------- 1 BA3759 887 Aug 20 17:00 id_rsa > > It contains lines like this: > > host utah > User abu > IdentityFile /home/.ssh/id_rsa > > Using 'ssh utah' does not work, I get prompted for the password for > BA3759@utah. But strange enough, 'ssh -F $HOME/.ssh/config utah' does > work. $HOME/.ssh/config should be the default for the config file, but > obviousely it isn't??? You shouldn't have to specify IdentityFile in the config, since $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa is the default (and the path /home/.ssh you have above probably doesn't exist, unless your home directory is really /home/.) Also, why don't you have a id_rsa.pub file? When you created the public key you should have created a pair of keys, the public id_rsa.pub (which you added to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote host, yes?) and the private id_rsa. Brian -- 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/