Re: Key-based authentication fails when keys are in Samba directory

2003-10-24 Thread Hugh Brown
Brian Ford wrote: > I'm not an ssh expert, but how do you expect this to work, at least if the > Samba mount requires authentication? Seems like a "chicken and the egg" > problem to me. and Larry Hall wrote: > Can an unauthenticated user access //sambaserver/username via Windows? > If not, that'

Re: Key-based authentication fails when keys are in Samba directory

2003-10-24 Thread Larry Hall
Can an unauthenticated user access //sambaserver/username via Windows? If not, that's the real problem. You'll have to use password authentication unless you change the access. I'd be surprised if your problem is driven by directory/file permission issues anyway, since you have StrictModes turned

Re: Key-based authentication fails when keys are in Samba directory

2003-10-24 Thread Brian Ford
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Hugh Brown wrote: > I have Cygwin and OpenSSH set up on a number of Win2K machines. > Home directories for users are mounted via a FreeBSD-based Samba > server named Whistler. SSH to the Win2K machines works without any > problems *except* for key-based authentication where t