OK, the machine hadn't rebooted, that was causing a problem. After reboot, the login responses have changed:
error in locking authority file /cygdrive/y/jcgervais/.Xauthority [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh -Y neptune [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: Wed May 25 23:37:00 2005 from pluto Fanfare!!! You are successfully logged in to this server!!! /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file /cygdrive/y/me/.Xauthority basename: invalid option -- b Try `basename --help' for more information. -bash: [: =: unary operator expected Running an application gives a different error now also. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ xcalc X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 12:37 -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2005, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > > Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > > > > Maybe ssh -v -v -v wil give you a clue what is happening. > > > > Right!! try running sshd in a consul in the foreground. (Check what switch > > makes it run in the foreground (-d?)) > > Both -D and -d do (Cygwin's ssh-host-config uses the -D option for the > service). -d is much more verbose (into the system log, which by default > is the Windows Event Log), and will only accept one connection. > > > Than see what prints you have. > > If this works it is not the end. SYSTEM user is different than the > > foreground user, sshd is very picky about permissions been to low or to > > high. > > You can run sshd from a SYSTEM-owned shell (Google for "system owned shell > shortcut"). > Igor
