Hello all,

I have a bit of trouble working a passwordless SSH from UNIX to Cygwin running windows 2k3. Here are some details. I AM able to SSH from the Windows box to the UNIX box using the keys. Also, I'm able to SSH from UNIX to Windows w/o the keys. However, when I try to do it with the keys the following output is produced
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debug3: check_host_in_hostfile: match line 1
debug1: Host 'xx.xx.xx.xxis known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/user/.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug2: bits set: 522/1024
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug2: kex_derive_keys
debug2: set_newkeys: mode 1
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug2: set_newkeys: mode 0
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug2: service_accept: ssh-userauth
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug2: key: /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/user/.ssh/identity (0x0)
debug2: key: /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa (0x0)
debug2: key: /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/user/.ssh/id_dsa (0x0)
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard- interactive
debug3: start over, passed a different list publickey,password,keyboard- interactive
debug3: preferred publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey
debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/user/.ssh/identity
debug3: no such identity: /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/user/.ssh/identity
debug1: Trying private key: /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
debug3: sign_and_send_pubkey
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
Connection closed by [remote host]




I'm not entirely sure that I'm using priveledged separation. Honestly it was so difficult to start the sshd service that I can't remember. When I check the windows service it does state that the CYGWIN sshd server is logged on as Local System.

I did uncomment out the following in sshd_config:

RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys

If someone could work with me on this I'd very much appreciate it.

Thanks,
Kevin