Hello,
I've just resolved an issue I had with public key authentication for ssh
in cygwyn. I needed to automate an rsync pull from a box running cygwyn.
The client is an antiquated redhat system. I was unable to successfully
execute remote commands after authenticating with a keypair. I was
finally able to resolve the issue by running the sshd service as the
user used for authenticating the ssh session and chowning various ssh
related files to the user (notably /var/log/sshd.log). I'd like to
recommend more documentation on this issue. It had a relatively simple
fix which, nonetheless, eluded me for several days.
If you have an alternate recommendation that better conforms to best
practices, please let me know. The ssh-host-config script spews various
useful bits of knowledge. Something along the lines of "For possible
issues with public key authentication please see <file>" might be nice.
Cheers.
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