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Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 08:13:54 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Can't get authorized_keys to work
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David,

The "file" command also identifies DOS vs. Unix text format. It even 
knows Mac-style. I doesn't use those names, but it does distinguish them all:

% file test*
test.txt:   ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators
test-txt:   ASCII text
test[TEXT]: ASCII text, with CR line terminators


Randall Schulz


At 21:30 2003-04-08, you wrote:
>Neil Aggarwal wrote April 08, 2003 5:55 PM:
> > I am trying to use cygwin to set-up an authorized_keys file
> > on my server to allow me to automatically login without a
> > password.
> >
> > My client machine is Windows 2000 Professional and the server
> > is RedHat Linux 7.3.
>
>Have you checked line endings?  e.g. Cygwin might have created the file
>with CR-LF, but Linux wants LF.  Use "od" (octal dump) to examine the
>file.  Use "dos2unix" to convert line endings.
>
>
>HTH,
>
>David


Randy  


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