From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14397 invoked by alias); 24 Oct 2003 21:18:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 14384 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2003 21:18:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dyaptive.dnsalias.com) (207.194.143.195) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Oct 2003 21:18:53 -0000 Received: from whistler.dyaptive.com (whistler.dyaptive.com [IPv6:2002:cfc2:8fc3:0:250:baff:fe43:d1b0]) by dyaptive.dnsalias.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9OLIp47001533; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:18:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hbrown@dyaptive.com) Received: from robson.dyaptive.com (robson.dyaptive.com [IPv6:2002:cfc2:8fc3:0:2e0:18ff:fefe:2485]) by whistler.dyaptive.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h9OLIpxv066221; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:18:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hbrown@dyaptive.com) Received: (from hbrown@localhost) by robson.dyaptive.com (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h9OLIppx008670; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 14:18:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hbrown@dyaptive.com) X-Authentication-Warning: robson.dyaptive.com: hbrown set sender to hbrown@dyaptive.com using -f Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 23:07:00 -0000 From: Hugh Brown To: Brian Ford Cc: cygwin-lh@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Key-based authentication fails when keys are in Samba directory Message-ID: <20031024211851.GF97802@robson.dyaptive.com> References: <20031024202538.GE97802@robson.dyaptive.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg01615.txt.bz2 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/