Key-based authentication fails when keys are in Samba directory

[Brian Ford]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Hugh Brown wrote:

> I have Cygwin and OpenSSH set up on a number of Win2K machines.
> Home directories for users are mounted via a FreeBSD-based Samba
> server named Whistler.  SSH to the Win2K machines works without any
> problems *except* for key-based authentication where the
> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file is in a Samba-mounted home directory.
>
I'm not an ssh expert, but how do you expect this to work, at least if the
Samba mount requires authentication?  Seems like a "chicken and the egg"
problem to me.

Did you look at this thread?

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01506.html

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Brian Ford
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