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Re: Strange problem wiith Cygwin ssh-still no luck :-(


Just a quick question... If i run sshd  as a specific
user instead of the default SYSTEM, and log in using
RSA as that user,will i still have similar problems?
What do you think? 
Thanks 
--- Larry Hall <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
> Clearly this is an authentication issue.  'ssh' is
> working 
> fine.  The 'setup' program you're running is
> obviously trying 
> to access resources it can't get to without
> authentication.  
> You might try doing the same thing when you're
> logged in through 
> Windows to the desktop on the remote machine as the
> same user.
> If it works for this, then I'd say that's the
> problem.  Typically, 
> 'setup' programs want access to the registry, which
> is protected.
> You might find a suitable work-around for your needs
> but I expect
> you're bumping up against Windows security with this
> particular
> (non-Cygwin) program.
> 
> Larry
> 
> 
> At 12:56 AM 3/26/2004, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >Reading that part about network drives, I tried
> >disconnecting all the remote drives from the
> machine(
> >Maybe the installer, while initilizing was checking
> >out the system resources..??) but still no luck.
> The
> >setup still fails with error 67. But maybe there IS
> >some issue with drive permissions..?? I set up sshd
> to
> >run in interactive mode so that i could use the
> setup
> >GUI instead of the standard silent install i was
> >using...I noticed a strange thing here: The licence
> >agreement which the setup displays (and i presume
> it
> >loads up the agreement text from a file ) was not
> >displayed when logged in without password..simply
> an
> >empty box with the "i agree /disagree" options... .
> >Again, logging in with password has no problems and
> >setup displays the licence file correctly.. The
> >install image is stored in the c:\cygwin\tmp
> directory
> >and the temporary files are stored in
> c:\winnt\Temp. I
> >don't see any visible need to access network drives
> >here......I'm still confused :-( 
> >--- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Bindaas Guy wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Hi,
> >> > I'm new to this list...and Cygwin, so sorry if
> >> this is
> >> > an old problem...bit iguess there's no better
> >> place to
> >> > get cygwin answers than this list :-)
> >> > Here's my problem-  I have 2 Win2K Adv Server
> >> machine
> >> > with NTFS drives running Cygwin. sshd is
> running
> >> on
> >> > both.CYGWIN=ntsec. I have run ssh-keygen to
> >> generate
> >> > keys and have set up to be able to log in
> without
> >> > password... I CAN log in and run most programs
> >> like
> >> > cmd etc, but running a certain setup.exe fails
> >> with
> >> > $?=67....However if i use password
> authentication
> >> > instead of the keys for ssh, setup.exe runs
> >> > successfully...Note however that both ways of
> >> > authentication allow me to run other
> >> programs...the
> >> > user i use is part of "Administrators " and can
> >> "log
> >> > in as service" and "act as part of OS" on both
> >> > machines... I then tried creating a local user
> who
> >> is
> >> > only part of "Users" and tried running
> setup.exe
> >> from
> >> > that id. It failed with error 67 again. This
> leads
> >> me
> >> > to believe there is some problem with the RSA
> >> > authentication????Here is what i did to set up
> >> > password-less login - On one machine , i ran
> >> > ssh-keygen -t rsa -P "". then copied id_rsa.pub
> to
> >> > authorized_keys and copied the 3 files to
> ~/.ssh
> >> > directory... Also copied ALL THREE files to
> ~/.ssh
> >> for
> >> > same user on the other machine... Also,
> >> > StrictHostKeyChecking is set to "no" in
> >> ~/.ssh/config
> >> > file.
> >> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >> 
> >> Does
> >>
>
><http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-RELEASE1.3.3>
> >> help
> >> explain things?
> >>   Igor
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