Shared home dir, samba workgroups and ssh

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> As Larry proposed, "StrictModes no" or mapping .ssh to a local 
>> directory should help. Another choice would be to start sshd with 
>> "nontsec".
> Pretty much as I suspected. I missed Larry's response. Sorry. But 
> Corina, you're response here will server others well I suspect.
> 
> While I can turn StrictModes to no on my server, I can't on the various 
> Unix machines I might log into at work.
> 
> How do you "map" the .ssh directory to a local directory? Would it be 
> something like mv ~/.ssh /cygdrive/c/myssh and then ln -s 
> /cygdrive/c/myssh ~/.ssh? Hmm.... I wonder how that would look/work when 
> I'm on a Unix machine (which shares my home directory) when I ssh from 
> one Unix machine to another...). 


That's a good reason to copy the directory and then mount it instead of
linking it.  That way only your Cygwin environment sees it.


> As for starting with nontsec would that 
> be something like "CYGWIN=NONTSEC ssh <host>" at the command line?


Something like that, yes. ;-)



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