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Re: SSH publickey problem, password works (Win 2003, OpenSSH_5.1p1, Cygwin DLL1.5.25 )


Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Just Me wrote:
>   
>> I've been fighting with SSH for a week now, I've read everything I can
>> google, it's finally time to ask for help.
>>
>> I can ssh to any account using a password, no problem.  It bombs with a
>> cannot seteuid error in the event log when I use a keypair.
>>     
>
> Are you sure the seteuid error is the important one?
>
>   
>> The permissions of /home/sfinfo are 755
>>     
> Acceptable.
>
>   
>> The permissions of /home/sfinfo/.ssh are 755
>>     
> Bzzt.
>
>   
>> The permissions of /home/sfinfo/.ssh/authorized_keys are 644
>>     
> Bzzt.
>
> The symptoms you describe are not what I would expect, but I'm pretty
> sure this will definitely not work unless the permissions on .ssh are
> 0700 and those on .ssh/authorized_keys are 0600.
>
>   
>> The authorized_keys file contains one DSA public key.
>>     
> OK.
>
>   
>> The permissions on the private key, sfinfo_id_dsa are 600.
>>     
>
> ...the private key is, of course, on the system you're ssh'ing *from*
> while the authorized_keys file is on the system you're ssh'ing *to*,
> correct?
>
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>   
I'm not sure if it's the important error.  I just noticed that the event
viewer is throwing a message that says "syslogin_perform_logout:
logout()returned an error."

Changed the permissions as listed.  No luck.  And yes, the private key
is on the from box.  I've been bitten by that one before.

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