On 2/16/2010 1:37 PM, Cliff Hayes wrote:
I can ssh from my windows instance of cygwin to the mimedefang server. I also established a trust relationship by exchanging ssh keys. I do that all the time to automate ssh tasks. However, for cygwin, it keeps defaulting to my windows user and not "root" and that's the problem.
Are you doing this from one of the xterms that started when you did a 'startx'? You shoud be the local windows user there. And you probably have to have run the mkpasswd and mkgroup commands as shown when you installed cygwin so you'll have a home directory for the .xauthority file.
I can override it if I type out the ssh command at the command prompt (ssh root@<ip>) but when watch-mimedefang runs, it uses the windows user.
That doesn't make any sense if your ssh command actually worked - you should be root on the remote side. But either you have to permit password based logins or you have to have set up the keys for the windows user at your end and root at the other. And you should add the -P option to the ssh command line to make sure the X tunneling works.
If I could figure out how to run cygwin with root user I think it would work.
I just did it on my laptop and it worked as expected - with the cygwin side running as my windows user id but logged in as root on the server.
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