Re: Cygwin+SSH : Permission Problem

Additional information to my posting:

I found that this error message was only caused when the environment
variable CYGWIN was
not set to smbntsec.

When I do an

export CYGWIN=smbntsec

ssh now asks me

Enter passphrase for key 'etcsec/fischron.ppk':

which is also strange, since the whole purpose of passing the private
key file to ssh ist that
I don't have to specify a passphrase. What else am I missing?

Ronald
.

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