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 X-Authentication-Warning: robson.dyaptive.com: hbrown set sender to hbrown@dyaptive.com using -f Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:18:51 -0700 From: Hugh Brown To: Brian Ford Cc: cygwin-lh@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Key-based authentication fails when keys are in Samba directory Message-ID: <20031024211851.GF97802@robson.dyaptive.com> References: <20031024202538.GE97802@robson.dyaptive.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Brian Ford wrote: > I'm not an ssh expert, but how do you expect this to work, at least if the > Samba mount requires authentication? Seems like a "chicken and the egg" > problem to me. and Larry Hall wrote: > Can an unauthenticated user access //sambaserver/username via Windows? > If not, that's the real problem. You'll have to use password authentication > unless you change the access. Both of these fine gentlemen had it right: I had completely missed the Samba authentication problem. I was able to use public-key authentication by mounting my home directory with the public key via "net use" (and supplying a password), prior to logging in via SSH. Thanks very much to both of your for your swift (and patient) responses! -- Hugh Brown hbrown@dyaptive.com -- 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/