I've been trying "ssh localhost" on cygwin (I use WIndows 7), but it keeps asking for the password.
When I did "ssh -vvv localhost", I found out that the public key authentications were not happening (or failing). Hence, it was asking for the password. debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive debug3: start over, passed a different list publickey,password,keyboard-interactive debug3: preferred publickey,keyboard-interactive,password debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/navenara/.ssh/id_rsa debug3: send_pubkey_test debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive I'm not sure if it is unable to read the authorized_keys file, or if there is a timeout issue with this, or did the authentication fail? Is there any way to get more details? I have done the following steps: ssh-host-config. Answered yes to all. Generated the RSA key and added it to the authorized_keys file. net start sshd ssh localhost These are the permissions: -rw------- 1 navenara mkgroup 402 May 18 16:34 authorized_keys -rw------- 1 navenara mkgroup 1675 May 18 16:33 id_rsa -rw-r--r-- 1 navenara mkgroup 402 May 18 16:33 id_rsa.pub -rw-r--r-- 1 navenara mkgroup 171 May 18 14:33 known_hosts There are a couple of issues as well: - The group is displayed as mkgroup. - The user "navenara" does not exist in the localhost, I guess. It was not displayed in "net user sshd". "navenara" is a Domain account. Could this be causing the public key authentication issue? Just to see if there is any difference in the output, I deleted the authorized_keys file and tried. There was no difference in the output. It still sends a packet and proceeds to the next mode of authentication. There is no error message. As of now, I do not know what happens when the packet is sent in my case. I would be able to proceed further if I know what exactly the problem is. Is there any way to get more details than what "ssh -vvv localhost" provides? I'm very new to Cygwin and SSH. Any help would be great. Thanks! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
