From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14444 invoked by alias); 24 Oct 2003 20:39:11 -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 14433 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2003 20:39:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO esds.vss.fsi.com) (66.136.174.212) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Oct 2003 20:39:08 -0000 Received: from eos.vss.fsi.com (eos [198.51.27.61]) by esds.vss.fsi.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id h9OKd6k09218; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:39:06 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (ford@localhost) by eos.vss.fsi.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h9OKd6R24105; Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:39:06 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: eos.vss.fsi.com: ford owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 21:06:00 -0000 From: Brian Ford X-X-Sender: ford@eos To: Hugh Brown cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Key-based authentication fails when keys are in Samba directory In-Reply-To: <20031024202538.GE97802@robson.dyaptive.com> Message-ID: References: <20031024202538.GE97802@robson.dyaptive.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg01609.txt.bz2 On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Hugh Brown wrote: > I have Cygwin and OpenSSH set up on a number of Win2K machines. > Home directories for users are mounted via a FreeBSD-based Samba > server named Whistler. SSH to the Win2K machines works without any > problems *except* for key-based authentication where the > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file is in a Samba-mounted home directory. > 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. Did you look at this thread? http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01506.html -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- 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/