Need help in making passwordless sftp work for cygwin

Mon Jul 3 16:21:00 GMT 2006

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Tzung-Cheng Yang wrote:
> I tried to make passwordless sftp work between a Windows 2000 system
> running cygwin and a Redhat Linux Enterprise 4 box.
>> After I putting the id_rsa.pub in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on remote
> host(linux box), the sftp still keeps asking password.
>> I also changed the following on the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file on remote
> hosts
>> RSAAuthentication yes
> PubkeyAuthentication yes
> AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys
>> Can anybody help to solve the problem?
>> Here is the message
>> $ sftp -v tcy@nhic2
> [snip]

Try reading and following
> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

especially the part about attaching the output of "cygcheck -svr" on your
machine.
Also, "sftp -vvv ..." should produce more debugging info which may point
to the source of the problem.
	Igor
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