sshd can't do publickey auth with .ssh linked to /cygdrive/c/rest/of/path

[Marc Bejarano]

hi.  i'm not subscribed to this list so i would be grateful if i could be 
left on the cc: line of this thread.

i tried to link my ~/.ssh to "/cygdrive/c/Documents and 
Settings/<username>/Application Data/Van Dyke Technologies/SecureCRT/" 
because i thought it was the most straight-forward way to share my identity 
files.  this breaks incoming publickey auth to cygwin openssh sshd.  sshd logs:
==
debug1: userauth-request for user beej service ssh-connection method publickey
debug1: attempt 1 failures 1
debug1: test whether pkalg/pkblob are acceptable
debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 1003/544 (e=18/18)
debug1: trying public key file /home/beej/.ssh/authorized_keys
debug1: restore_uid: (unprivileged)
debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 1003/544 (e=18/18)
debug1: trying public key file /home/beej/.ssh/authorized_keys2
Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /cygdrive/c
==
so it isn't happy about /cygdrive/c.  here's how cygwin sees that "dir":
==
$ ls -ld /cygdrive/c
d---------   15 65535    65535           0 Feb  3 04:11 /cygdrive/c/
==

so my question: is there a way to make this work?  can i change the 
mode/ownership bits on a /cygdrive mountpoint?  or can i tell the sshd to 
be less security-conscious?

tia,
marc


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/