Paul, I'm struggling with the same (Windows) issues Ken is so thank you very much for having the patience to share your technique.
Any comments you have on the following questions would be greatly appreciated. 1. In reviewing your instructions, it appears that you have 3 different client side locations for the Windows equivalent of home - it looks like you have multiple .ssh folders on your client side? - c:\cygwin\home - /home/Administrator/.ssh/id_dsa.pub - c:\cygwin\Administrator\.ssh 2. On the server side, why do you use .ssh/authorized_keys2 vs. .ssh/authorized_keys (same file without the '2' prefix)? I'm guessing this has something to do with SSH vs. SSH2? The instructions I've been reading on the web use the 'authorized_keys' file name. 3. Don't you need to register your server's public key on your client via something like this or is this an optional step? cat your-server_dsa.pub >> /home/Administrator/.ssh/known_hosts file 4. Any specific reason for choosing DSA vs. RSA to generate your key? THANK YOU :) Malcolm <snipped> Ok, the key difference on Windows using Cygwin versus *nix machines is that there's no /home directory. /home is underneath whereever cygwin is installed, usually c:\cygwin\home. Here's what I did on my Vista machine, in Windows Terminal, to enable passwordless logins to my server: ssh-keygen -t dsa <press enter through every prompt> <make a note of the directory where it tells you the key is installed, for me it was /home/Administrator/.ssh/id_dsa.pub> c: cd c:\cygwin\Administrator\.ssh scp id_dsa.pub [email protected]: <enter password> ssh [email protected] <enter password> cat id_dsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys2 exit ssh [email protected] <no password prompt> </snipped> _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
