Re: Unable to establish password-less login from Linux onto Windows.

Hi Armand,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

I installed Cygwin....everything worked like a charm.....

Thanks once again,...

Cheers,
Parag Kalra

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Welsh, Armand <Armand.Welsh@sscims.com>wrote:

> what version of openSSH are you using for windows?
>
> There are:
> openSSH
> CygWin
> copSSH
> openSSH for Windows
>
> the last one is out dated, and does not work well with newer windows
> operating systems w/o a lot of manual tweaking.
>
> the first one would require you build the the software from source code,
> and typically does not build natively on windows w/o a lot of code changes,
> or using cygwin or equivalent
>
> cygwin is the gnu tools for windows (I like to refer to it is linux on
> windows, since it allows you to use your windows machine like a linux box)
>
> copSSH and openSSH for Windows are two repacked versions of the cygwin
> product, reduced to just openSSH functionality, and bash shell (and a very
> small subset of /usr/bin files)
>
> copSSH work out of the box.
> openSSH for Windows requires a lot of manual adjustments to the registry,
> and filesystem to make it work
> cygwin works about 98% out of the box for openSSH... only some systems
> aren't 100% functional after a fresh install...
>
> The most typical issue is pubkey authentication on windows, because of the
> way the windows security model works. the openSSH service needs to have
> sufficient rights to become another user account w/o knowing the account
> password. This is where the difficulties come in.
>
> Armand
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* ssh@erdelynet.com [mailto:ssh@erdelynet.com] *On Behalf Of *Parag
> Kalra
> *Sent:* Friday, August 15, 2008 3:40 PM
> *To:* ssh@erdelynet.com
> *Subject:* Unable to establish password-less login from Linux onto
> Windows.
>
>
>
> Hey Friends,
>
> This is my first post.
>
> I installed openssh software and was able to ssh Windows machine from Linux
> machine & vice-versa without any issues. Of course I had to read the
> "README.txt" file as well as "key_authentication.txt" before everything got
> placed.
>
> When I ssh from Linux on to Windows, my default home directory is:
> "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\"
>
> Then I generated public key & private key (dsa) using openssh software.
> Copied the contents of public key to authorized_keys
> (/root/.ssh/authorized_keys) file of a remote Linux machine and was able to
> do password-less login from Windows machine to Linux machine.
>
>
> Then I copied both (same) the public & private keys to /root/.ssh/ folder
> of Linux machine and copied the contents of the same public key to
> authorized_keys file:( "C::\Documents and
> Settings\Administrator\.ssh\authorized_keys" ) on the Windows machine. But
> still password-less login is not working from Linux onto Windows.
>
> Please help!
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> PARAG . A . KALRA
>
>
>
>
>
>

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