Hello. I did a bit more digging in the debug information and I have isolated the problem, which looks like it comes directly from the source code. The ssh-agent.log shows the following entries during my ssh connection attempt from the Linux machine to the Windows machine running a Win64 OpenSSH: 5772 16:13:37 990 debug1: trying public key file C:\Users\LAW/.ssh\authorized_keys 5772 16:13:37 990 debug1: given public key is not mapped to user LAW (profile:C:\Users\LAW) My sshd_config file has been set with the following entry: AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh\authorized_keys I have noticed that if I was to either use the line AuthorizedKeysFile %h\.ssh\authorized_keys or AuthorizedKeysFile C:\Users\LAW\.ssh\authorized_keys the ssh-agent.log shows a debug entry now saying trying public key file C:\Users\LAW/C:\Users\LAW\.ssh\authorized_keys Having had a dig around in the source-code for OpenSSH, the culprit is the subroutine expand_authorized_keys in the file auth.c which returns a char pointer called ret given by snprintf(ret, sizeof(ret), "%s/%s", pw->pw_dir, file) You can see here that the formatting "%s/%s" is causing the insertion of a forward-slash in the public key filename used in the windows environment; to this extent, the authorized_keys file will never be found in the windows environment. Would it suffice if I rebuild the Win64 OpenSSH executables with the correction snprintf(ret, sizeof(ret), "%s\\%s", pw->pw_dir, file), or should I wait for an official build with this correction? Yours sincerely, Peter. ___________________________________________________________ Dr. Peter E. Lawrence BSc(Ma & Comp Sc)(Hons) MSc(Ma Sc)(Res) PhD(Ma Sc) Analyst & Software Engineer BELGOCONTROL (CANAC) Tervuursesteenweg 303 B - 1820 Steenokkerzeel Tel: [Office]: +32 2 206 2588 [GSM]: +32 4 701 80752 Email: law@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web: www.belgocontrol.be Belgocontrol Mail Disclaimer _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
