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

[Marc Bejarano]

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

At 04:26 PM 2/3/2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
 >On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Marc Bejarano wrote:
 >> 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.

 >> Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /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?

 >Before you do anything as drastic as a "chmod -R a+rx /cygdrive/c"

i'm not convinced even drastic measures will help.  sshd thinks /cygdrive/c 
is a directory.  it is worried about the modes of the dir, 
itself.  unfortunately, even when i'm logged in as user Administrator, i 
can't seem to make any changes to it:
[Administrator@beej-lap]/:{1}:$ chmod 755 /cygdrive/c
chmod: changing permissions of `/cygdrive/c': Permission denied

and on the windoze side of things, i don't know how to set permissions for 
a drive.

btw: i am not a domain user.

 >try the following:
 >
 >$ mv /etc/passwd /etc/passwd-old
 >$ mv /etc/group /etc/group-old
 >$ mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd
 >$ mkgroup -l > /etc/group

 >And see if this helps.

nope :(

 >In other words, your /etc/{passwd,group} files seem to be incomplete, so
 >you need to regenerate them.

can you try making your .ssh link to a /cygdrive/c path and see if it works 
for you?

tia,
marc


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