Re: Using Key Pairs on OpenSSH on Win2k3

So I took your advice and installed CopSSH instead and it is working as desired, with one minor snag. First, the application I am using this for is to connect to the copssh server and run some commands. One of the commands involves connection to a different server via https. When I do this I get prompted to accept the certificate. Choosing 'p' for permanent has no effect.

Advice I have gotten from other forums is that I need to download Comodo's Trusted Root Certificate and append it to the end of the ca-bundle.crt that is used by OpenSSH. Unfortunately a search of the system yields no such file. Where does CopSSH place this file? And do you agree that this is the recommended course of action?

Robert
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From: Welsh, Armand [mailto:Armand.Welsh@sscims.com]
To: ssh@erdelynet.com
Sent: Thu, 22 May 2008 09:17:19 -0700
Subject: Re: Using Key Pairs on OpenSSH on Win2k3

Robert,
  
  Before I look into potential causes, the first I would like to know is: are you using copSSH, the Cygwin installation with the openSSH package installed, or the "openSSH for Windows" project from source forge?
  
  Why do I ask? Al three are openSSH from the cygwin project the following conditions:
  Cygwin is the thick install proding the option to turn you windows box into a GNU Linux like operating system (via the bash or other shell and some special mappers built into cygwin). The cygwin project installs a basic configuration of openSSH which works well on older windows systems, but requires specific things be done to get the SSH server to work 100% on windows 2003 and Vista.
  
  CopSSH is a pre-packaged minimal installation of Cygwin with a couple minor enhancement patches that installs Cygwin, openSSH, configures you computer (even vista and win2k3) so that openSSH works without any tweaking at all.
  
  "OpenSSH for Windows" is a dead sourceforge project that is almost identical to copSSH, except that development on the project has stopped a long time ago, and this package requires more tweaking of the ssh settings and the server that the other options, and is running very old ssh code that should not be used anymore in my opinion.
  
  If you want the easy solution, install copSSH and everything will work. If you want to get what you have working and you did not install copSSH then we can offer assistance with making all the appropriate changes, but it will take more time to get SSH services up and running with public keys, but you will have the option of using any piece of the cygwin project easily.
  
  Armand
  
  

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