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Re: sshd debugging


On Tuesday 23 March 2004 07:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 23 07:16, David Corbin wrote:
> > I have sshd up and running as a service.  I can ssh into the box if I
> > type a password, but I do have a public-key/private-key installed that it
> > doesn't seem to recognize.  (If you want to recommend a solution to this
> > problem, please do - it's the real problem).
>
> The keys are probably not readable by SYSTEM.  Use ssh-user-config as
> the affected user.  The script sets the permissions correctly.

Thanks.  That corrected it.  What does it really mean to be readble by 
"SYSTEM"?  I'm fairly savy about unix/windows security, but I'm not sure I 
have a clue how cygwin manages things.

-- 
David Corbin <dcorbin@machturtle.com>


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