[sllug-members]: How does one properly implement OpenSSH?

Byron Clark byron at theclarkfamily.name
Tue Mar 25 08:17:38 MST 2008


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 08:56:31AM -0600, Nathan Lane wrote:
> If my users are local users and not domain users, what is the proper
> way to set them up? I've had difficulty because my user name seems to
> be two words separated by a space, and logging in like
> 
> ssh localhost -l "Nathan Lane"
> 
> didn't seem to work.   That's why I'm here now.  Maybe I need to fix
> my user name first?  The password file seems to contain both my
> workgroup and correct username though.  But I didn't see a specific
> switch for workgroup/domain, so I tried
> 
> ssh localhost -l "workgroup\Nathan Lane"
> 
> and that didn't work either. I haven't tried the key thing yet though...

Since it appears you're running on cygwin, you may want to read through
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README to find out how things are
different on that platform.  There are some extra steps you'll need to
follow to get everything working.

-- 
Byron Clark
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