This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: sshd: public key working, but can't get passwords working
Daniel Griscom wrote:
[snip]
>> Do you happen to have a domain user as well as a local user?
>
> I don't know the difference. I'm not at the machine now, but it's a
> vanilla Windows installation. All machines on my network are in
> workgroup MSHOME. I created one account when installing windows,
> "development". I told ssh-host-config to create the sshd user, but I
> don't know of any other users created.
>
> How would I test this?
What I meant is that you could have a user named development as a local user,
and (a different) domain-user with the same name. I did not mean a "domain"
user, just if there was several "development" users.
It looks like the answer is no.
Back to the original problem: did you use ssh-user-config? (I guess you did
since you had to copy the public key).
What you reported about the log is simple, the password used is not correct...
it should prompt you 3 times and then close the connection; or the configuration
does not allow password authentication, let's check this last one:
In /etc/sshd_config you should have:
#PasswordAuthentication yes
#PermitEmptyPasswords no
#UsePAM no
Those are the defaults, that's why they are commented.
--
René Berber
--
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/