12-01-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by
kclerks11
I did uncomment out the following in sshd_config:
RSAAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys
These are the defaults anyway for those attributes (see man sshd_config)
Quote:
I tried your suggestion but no luck
$ chown 0 var/empty
chown: changing ownership of `var/empty': Invalid argument
Currently /var is owned by me and /var/empty is owned by by SYSTEM and has the permissions "drwxr-xr-x"
This sounds strange, as to my knowledge /var on a Unix-like system should either be owned by
root or
bin.
Also why were you using a relative path when you issued the chown command,
and what directory were you in when you did it?
The $ in your prompt implies to me that you were issuing the chown as a non-root user which without sudo or similar also looks strange to me.
But I guess this all refers to the sshd server running in Cygwin where ownerships and admin rights may differ strangely.
Sorry, I have no Cygwin sshd setup experience to tell if this is all normal.
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ssh-copy-id
SSH-COPY-ID(1) General Commands Manual SSH-COPY-ID(1)
NAME
ssh-copy-id - install your public key in a remote machine's authorized_keys
SYNOPSIS
ssh-copy-id [-i [identity_file]] [user@]machine
DESCRIPTION
ssh-copy-id is a script that uses ssh to log into a remote machine (presumably using a login password, so password authentication should be
enabled, unless you've done some clever use of multiple identities)
It also changes the permissions of the remote user's home, ~/.ssh, and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys to remove group writability (which would oth-
erwise prevent you from logging in, if the remote sshd has StrictModes set in its configuration).
If the -i option is given then the identity file (defaults to ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) is used, regardless of whether there are any keys in your
ssh-agent. Otherwise, if this:
ssh-add -L
provides any output, it uses that in preference to the identity file.
If the -i option is used, or the ssh-add produced no output, then it uses the contents of the identity file. Once it has one or more fin-
gerprints (by whatever means) it uses ssh to append them to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote machine (creating the file, and directory,
if necessary)
SEE ALSO
ssh(1), ssh-agent(1), sshd(8)
OpenSSH 14 November 1999 SSH-COPY-ID(1)