Question about "rexec"

[Andrew DeFaria]

Max Bowsher wrote:

>Andrew DeFaria wrote:
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>
>>Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote:
>>
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>>>Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Bill C. Riemers wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>>You might also want to check the ownership of your home directory
>>>>>and .ssh directory, as that is the only thing I can think of that
>>>>>would cause the touch error in your previous message.  If ownership
>>>>>or permissions are wrong, then sshd defaults to require a password
>>>>>rather than trusting that nobody else has changed the key files.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Herein I believe my difficulties lie. That an not understanding
>>>>Windows permissions vs Unix permissions and how such things are
>>>>mapped. Here's what I do know:
>>>>
>>>>$ cd ~/.ssh
>>>>$ ls -l
>>>>total 6
>>>>-rw-r--r--    1 adefaria Domain U      227 May 22 17:10 authorized_keys
>>>>-rw-r--r--    1 adefaria Domain U      227 May 22 15:25 authorizedkeys
>>>>-rw-r--r--    1 adefaria Domain U      887 May 22 15:22 id_rsa
>>>>-rw-r--r--    1 adefaria Domain U      227 May 22 15:22 id_rsa.pub
>>>>-rw-r--r--    1 adefaria Domain U     1624 May 22 15:19 known_hosts
>>>>$ chmod 600 id_rsa*
>>>>$ ls -l
>>>>total 6
>>>>-rw-r--r--    1 adefaria Domain U      227 May 22 17:10 authorized_keys
>>>>-rw-r--r--    1 adefaria Domain U      227 May 22 15:25 authorizedkeys
>>>>-rw-r--r--    1 adefaria Domain U      887 May 22 15:22 id_rsa
>>>>-rw-r--r--    1 adefaria Domain U      227 May 22 15:22 id_rsa.pub
>>>>-rw-r--r--    1 adefaria Domain U     1624 May 22 15:19 known_hosts
>>>>
>>>>Nothing. So I go into Windows Explorer and look at the Security
>>>>setting on the Properties dialog. I attempt to remove the users in
>>>>the Security section and it tells me that I have to stop inheriting
>>>>permissions. So I go to stop inheriting permissions and tell it to
>>>>remove everything. Now nobody's listed in the Securities section.
>>>>Windows warns me that only the create of the file will be able to
>>>>access it. I look in Cygwin with ls -l and the mode bits are the
>>>>same. I try the chmod again and there is no change! So I add my user
>>>>back to having full control. My user is the only user listed now but
>>>>the mode bits are still 644.
>>>>
>>>>When I try to ssh $(hostname) cmd I get:
>>>>
>>>>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
>>>>@         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
>>>>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
>>>>Permissions 0644 for '/us/adefaria/.ssh/id_rsa' are too open.
>>>>It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by
>>>>others.
>>>>This private key will be ignored.
>>>>bad permissions: ignore key: /us/adefaria/.ssh/id_rsa
>>>>
>>>>Now what?!?
>>>>
>>>>(It would be nice if somebody who really knew the algorithm could
>>>>explain Windows permissions and how they are mapped to Unix mode bits).
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Or you could just look at the FAQ:
>>>
>>>Why doesn't chmod work?
>>><http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC45>
>>>      
>>>
>>All that this says is to insure that you have ntsec set. I have it set.
>>chmod still doesn't work! BTW I'm on Windows XP and use NTFS. My home
>>directory is on the server (/us is a mount of //<server>/<share>).
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>
>Aha! Then have a look at smbntsec.
>
>Max.
>
Again, I'm not use Samba. The <server> is a Windows box not a Linux box 
running Samba.



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