Hi, Any help on this is much appreciated. thanks, Ash ________________________________ From: Ashish Shah <ag_shah@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 11:53 AM To: openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Open SSH public key setup not working on windows 2012 Hi, I downloaded setupssh-7.3p1-2.exe for Windows x64. I created private public keys and set it up accordingly. After entering the passphrase, I see authentication succeeded message but then the connection to the remote host gets closed immediately. Some of the Client output: ************************ ... Enter passphrase for key '/home/user2/.ssh/id_rsa': debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey). Authenticated to machine2 ([10.39.69.139]:22). debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@xxxxxxxxxxx debug1: Entering interactive session. debug1: pledge: network debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1 Connection to machine2 closed by remote host. Connection to machine2 closed. Transferred: sent 2336, received 2880 bytes, in 0.0 seconds Bytes per second: sent 1167945.4, received 1439932.7 debug1: Exit status -1 *************************** Some of the output from remote host OpenSSHD.log. It says "seteuid 1084961: Operation not permitted" as seen below at the end. ********************* ... debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256@xxxxxxxxxx debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ecdsa-sha2-nistp521 debug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305@xxxxxxxxxxx MAC: <implicit> compression: none debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305@xxxxxxxxxxx MAC: <implicit> compression: none debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_INIT debug2: set_newkeys: mode 1 debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug2: set_newkeys: mode 0 debug1: rekey after 134217728 blocks debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: KEX done debug1: userauth-request for user agshah service ssh-connection method none debug1: attempt 0 failures 0 debug2: parse_server_config: config reprocess config len 561 debug2: input_userauth_request: setting up authctxt for agshah debug1: userauth_send_banner: sent debug2: input_userauth_request: try method none Failed none for user2 from 10.109.136.24 port 28409 ssh2 debug1: userauth-request for user user2 service ssh-connection method publickey debug1: attempt 1 failures 0 debug2: input_userauth_request: try method publickey debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 1084961/1049089 (e=18/18) seteuid 1084961: Operation not permitted debug1: do_cleanup ********************* thanks, Ash _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev