current recommended way of configuring ssh for password-less login

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Mon Apr 13 20:32:00 GMT 2015


On 04/13/2015 03:59 PM, Hans Horn wrote:
> Folks,
>
> as the subject line says.
>
> no matter what ssh-keys I use, or permissions I set, the ssh server insists
> in wanting my password.
>
> What is the current expert-recommended way of accomplishing password-less
> ssh under cygwin?

Run '/usr/bin/ssh-host-config' on the Cygwin installation that's the server
and '/usr/bin/ssh-user-config' on the Cygwin installation under the user
login that will be logging into the 'sshd' server.  This assumes that you're
not connected to a domain.  If you are, see this FAQ:

<https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.sshd-in-domain>


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