Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <01a701c2cbc2$89fc4320$696f86d9@webdev> From: "Elfyn McBratney" To: "cygwin" References: <3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955014BD829 AT EX-LONDON> Subject: Re: Problem with OpenSSH (daemon), mapped drives, and pubkey auth Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 20:24:37 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 > Its a know problem, when you log in via pub key the tokens needed for > network authentication are not created (a simplification but I cant remember > all the details) the same goes for any passwordless login (rsh etc with > .rhost files etc). Since your automating I'd assume you have blank pass > phrases on your keys, so you could try using an expect script (package > expect) to automate entering passwords without lowering your security too > much more. > > > Is this a known problem? Does anyone have a work-around for it? You could use expect to automate this, would have to put your password in the expect script but is a work-around. If this is appealing look at `man 1 expect' Regards, Elfyn McBratney elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk www.exposure.org.uk -- 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/