ssh never worked for me if the private key file was set be to readable by everyone... Did You start sshd with debugging, did You have a look into /var/log/sshd.log?
> Interestingly I saw that post just before making my posting > here. That > was the last attempt I made to fix it. I tried to chown SYSTEM.SYSTEM > .ssh/* which had no effect whatsoever on the ownership. This > user also has full administrative rights. > > Here is the directory listing for /home/user/.ssh: > > total 4 > drwxr-xr-x 2 user Kein 0 Jun 9 17:11 . > drwxr-xr-x 3 user Kein 0 Jun 9 16:09 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 user Kein 225 Jun 9 17:11 authorized_keys > -rw-r--r-- 1 user Kein 887 Jun 9 17:11 id_rsa > -rw-r--r-- 1 user Kein 225 Jun 9 17:11 id_rsa.pub > -rw-r--r-- 1 user Kein 447 Jun 9 17:12 known_hosts > > > However, given that they are all mode 644 I would think that would be > enough. I've also seen this thread > http://archive.erdelynet.com/ssh-l/2001-06/msg00057.php which > indicates > 644 should be enough (what I would also tend to think). ... -- 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/
