WinXP service problem

[Rachan Malhotra]

Ok. I think I figured out the problem. But I still do not have a 
solution for it. Here's what I think the problem is:
When the script is run as a windows service, the user that's calling the 
script is SYSTEM. Inside the script is a call to ssh client with the 
required parameters. I pass it the absolute path of the id_rsa file. The 
issue seems to be that user SYSTEM is not the owner of id_rsa file so it 
is being asked for a passphrase. On the contrary, if I add the batch 
script to startup programs, then no passphrase is asked and I am logged 
in right away. The problem here is that the command prompt window stays 
on the screen. This is something I wanted to avoid to begin with.

I haven't gotten around to start the server in debug mode since I 
haven't found a suitable time to bring down the ssh server.

Thanks
Rachan

Larry Hall wrote:

>At 12:09 PM 8/4/2004, you wrote:
>  
>
>>I turned on verbosity for the client and performed my tests- called the batch script directly and from the seervice. Attached are the logs from SSH client for both cases. I have removed my server name and user name for security reasons.
>>
>>Thx for your help,
>>Rachan
>>    
>>
>
>
>OK, that's really not much help, as I suspected.  All it shows is that
>the server responded differently to the key in one session than the other.
>You really need to start the server in debug mode and try each of these 
>again.  That's likely to provide you more insight to the problem.
>
>Two other things I noted:
>
>  1. You're using 'autossh.exe'.  Since this isn't part of a Cygwin 
>     package, I'm assuming you built this locally via Cygwin.  In any case,
>     I'd recommend pulling this out of the equation.  I'm not confident that
>     this is causing you any of the difficulties you're seeing but it makes
>     sense to eliminate the possibility.  Also, if there is a problem there,
>     it's not obvious that it's OT for this list at the moment.
>
>  2. You should really use your id_ra.pub file instead.
>     
>
>
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