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From: Hugh Brown <hbrown@dyaptive.com>
To: Brian Ford <ford@vss.fsi.com>
Cc: cygwin-lh@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Key-based authentication fails when keys are in Samba directory
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 23:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031024211851.GF97802@robson.dyaptive.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0310241536140.19644@eos>

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-24 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-24 20:58 Hugh Brown
2003-10-24 21:06 ` Brian Ford
2003-10-24 23:07   ` Hugh Brown [this message]
2003-10-24 21:16 ` Larry Hall

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