Re: Public Key Authentication Fails

From: Robin Strahan (noprobsucd_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:39:36 +0100

Well its commented out so I assume this means its set to 'no'.
"Bjørn Augestad" <boa@metasystems.no> wrote in message
news:5SGfd.3122$HA5.377982@juliett.dax.net...
> Robin Strahan wrote:
>
>> Hey NG,
>>
>> I'm trying to get public key authentication (password less) to work, but
>> I'm having no luck. I've followed all the guides I can find and it still
>> won't work. I'm sure I'm missing just one small thing but I jsut can't
>> see it. Hopefully someone here can.
>>
>> So here's my setup: (Excuse the length, I want to give as much info as I
>> can)
>>
>> Remote server:
>> Win2K SP4
>> Cygwin (Version 1.5.11)
>> OpenSSH (downloaded via Cygwin installer. Version OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL
>> 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004)
>> sshd is run as a service using "cygrunsrv sshd".
>>
>> In ssh_config I uncommented the line IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
>> In sshd_config:
>> StrictModes No
>> PubkeyAuthenication yes
>> AuthorizedKeyFile .ssh/authorized_keys
>> are all uncommented.
>>
>
> Is UsePAM set to yes or no? It should be set to no.
>
> HTH
> Boa
>
>
> [snip]