Bug 1553

Summary:	key based (authorized_keys2) authentication is not working in Windows 2003
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Ashish <ashish.chorge>
Component:	sshd	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	critical	CC:	djm
Priority:	P2
Version:	4.2p1
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other

Description Ashish 2009-02-09 16:47:57 AEDT

Hi,

Following are the steps to reproduce the bug.

1. Installed openssh 4.2p1-1 in Windows Server 2003 + SP2.
2. Use following commands to create user and group/password creation,
   net user root test@123 /add
   mkdir \"Documents and Settings"\root\.ssh
   cd \"Documents and Settings"
   cacls root /T /P everyone:F 
   cd \
   cd \"Program Files"\OpenSSH\bin"
   mkgroup -l > ..\etc\group
   mkpasswd -l > ..\etc\passwd
   net start opensshd
3. Use ssh-keygen -t rsa command to generate the key as follows. Use empty for no passphrase.
4. Copy the id_rsa.pub key as authorized_keys2
5. Restart the openssh service.
6. Prompting for password while checking self authentication using 'ssh root@IPAddress pwd' command. 
   
Regards
Ashish

Comment 1 Ashish 2009-02-10 14:37:08 AEDT

After doing all these steps (public key sharing) user should not promt for password. Is there anything I have to change in sshd_config file?

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2009-02-10 14:40:35 AEDT

OpenSSH 4.2 is quite old and not supported by the developers. Please try to recreate your problem with a recent version (i.e. 5.1) and attach a server debug trace.

Comment 3 Ashish 2009-02-16 15:36:49 AEDT

I found various download path's for OpenSSH 5.1 on net (google) but I am not able to download from those links, those links are not working. Do you have any particular path from where I can download the OpenSSH 5.1 for Windows?

Comment 4 Damien Miller 2009-02-16 15:41:05 AEDT

The best place to get OpenSSH for Windows is as part of Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/

Cygwin tracks the current version of OpenSSH quite closely.

Comment 5 Damien Miller 2009-11-10 13:29:58 AEDT

If you can replicate this bug with the most recent version of OpenSSH, and after checking with a Cygwin support site then please reopen this bug.

Comment 6 Damien Miller 2010-04-16 15:51:01 AEST

Mass move of bugs RESOLVED->CLOSED following the release of openssh-5.5p1