Hi, I currently have Cygwin running on my Windows laptop as a test enviroment to log in with SSH2. Now, sure you can run it from the command line in Cygwin, but these are users who aren't real savvy with technology, and probably won't have the patience to learn the CLI.
Therefore, I tried installing WinSCP. While I am asked for my passphrase in Cygwin, the same doesn't occur in WinSCP - I can log in with my user password, even when I have loaded my public key.
Anyone?
What's the question? Since this is a Linux list, not a Windows list, I'll start with the ssh server on the far end, presumably on a Linux machine.
An ssh server can permit multiple login options. The common Linux sshd uses a config file (probably /etc/ssh/sshd_config ... I don't know if this location is standard or varies from distro to distro) to specify what login options are available. Standard userid/password authentication is governed by this line:
# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
PasswordAuthentication yesI believe public-key authentication is governed by these lines (which one matters depends on which type of key you are using):
RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
#AuthorizedKeysFile %h/.ssh/authorized_keysIn your case, I expect that what is happening behind the curtain is that WinSCP tries to make a connection, does not find a private key to send, so asks the remote sshd to permit userid/password login ... which it does.
I looked quickly at the Website for WInSCP (http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/) and it says that WinSCP does support both RSA and DSA keys. it doesn't include the details of how to set up keys with this app ... only a general reference to using the keygen program from PuTTY ... but I imagine the docs that come with the WinSCP download have this information ... I would not assume WinSCP can find keyfiles generated by Cygwin apps.
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