From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "CyberZombie" To: "Corinna Vinschen" , Subject: Re: Problem with sshd on WindMill Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 11:13:00 -0000 Message-id: <000201c06794$292fe7c0$03f160d1@spherion> References: <00121616353305.00473@cygbert> X-SW-Source: 2000-12/msg00712.html >This isn't related to RSA/DSA encryption or passphrases vs passwords. >A simple question: How shall sshd recognize where the home directory >of the user is which just tries to logon to find the ~/.ssh directory? >The only chance is a correct entry in /etc/passwd with a correct home >directory set up. I can accept that. >9x systems doesn't have a real concept of different users. As a >result the output of mkpasswd is sort of faked. The only information >is the name of the current user stored by the system and retrieved by >the win32 call GetUserName(). So `mkpasswd' is behaving correctly >from my point of view. You can claim that `setup' shouldn't call >`mkpasswd' if /etc/passwd already exists (equiv. for `mkgroup'). Yes -- I think that mkpasswd shouldn't be called as part of the setup. But knowing that it is, I can keep a copy and keep it working... >The address was ok as you should have noted by receiving your mail >(and my answer) from the mailing list server. However, I asked for >the output of ssh -v and sshd -d when logging in with an existing user >which could contain more appropriate info. We've crossed wires here :) The last ssh -v/ sshd -d output I sent you WAS with the valid k02189 user in the sshd box's /etc/passwd. I also tried the variant k02189@I23TP777 (as specified in the identity.pub file) with no difference in the output. Unfortunately I'm now on vacation so I can't provide any more information until early January (happy I'm on vacation, but I still have to put in 16 hours). But I'm still reading the list -- if you have more suggestions and/or AHA!'s, I'll make note and get back with you then. And thanks for the help you've given so far... -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com