[wellylug] (semi-linux question - pushing the limit ) ssh on win nt 4 server

[Mark Signal]

Hi
this is just to update everyone who so kindly offered advice...

I played with cygwin chmod which just screwed up the windows files
permissions (not a silly idea Jamie)

I changed form rsa to dsa to no avail (but better security - Thank you
David)

I looked at -vv output but it only supported what I already knew - that ssh
thinks the file is 644 while windows (ntfs)
thinks its effectively 600 (David again)

The customer understandably likes their shared calendars within outlook so
web stuff is out (thanks Damon)

I tried running as a scheduled task (as administrator) no joy. I tried AT
which runs as system account - no joy (thanks Cliff)

and no I hadn't tried batch mode as I couldn't see how that could affect
permissions.(thanks monsieur Chalaron)

So I'm going to do what I normally do in these situations - fudge it. I'll
set up a cron job on their Linux firewall, do an smb mount to get the data
(read only - special "remote" user) visible to the firewall and rsync from
there to the backup server. A bit horrible but at least it should work.

Thanks everyone for the input I appreciate it.

cheers

Mark







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[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz]On Behalf Of Mark Signal
Sent: Tuesday, 20 July 2004 9:27 p.m.
To: Wellylug
Subject: [wellylug] (semi-linux question - pushing the limit ) ssh on
win nt 4 server


Hi
Sorry but its question time again

I am endeavouring to rsync data off of an nt4 server to a remote Linux
backup box via ssh (cygwin) using preshared keys.
If I manually start the backup batch file (as administrator) on the nt box
it all works fine. But (there is always a but) if I run it as a scheduled
task (as administrator) it fails - with ssh complaining that ...

Permissions of 0444 for '/.ssh/id_rsa are too open. bad permissions blah
blah blah.

Administrator is the files owner and is the only user permitted access...

Its got me stuffed - anyone got any polite ideas????

And before you suggest it - it would already be a Linux box if the customer
didn't need exchange's shared calendars...


cheers


Mark Signal

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