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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:40:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Aug 18 11:12, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> > > It appears as if your home directory is on the H drive and this is
> > > mounted from another system. Thus CYGWIN=ntsec does not apply because
> > > this is a share mounted using SMB. Thus, as I said before, you need to
> > > set CYGWIN=smbntsec and try again.
> >
> > This would also produce a chicken-and-egg problem for the OP: if the share
> > requires authentication, id_rsa won't be accessible until the user types
> > in a password, thus preventing any hope of public key authentication.
> > 	Igor
>
> You're mixing id_rsa with authorized_keys.  id_rsa, the private key,
> is only used when authenticating against another machine.

Oops, yes, you're right, I should've paid more attention...  My point is
still valid, though, in case the OP ever does want to use public key auth.
	Igor
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