Source – UNIX, Destination – Windows Cygwin (SSH Password-less Authentication)

On Windows Server

In windows cygwin create user, say MyUser, locally and also create user in cygwin

cd C:\cygwin

Cygwin.bat

 

Administrator@MYWINDOWSHOST ~

$ /bin/mkpasswd -l -u MyUser >>/etc/passwd

MyUser@MYWINDOWSHOST ~

$ ls

MyUser@MYWINDOWSHOST ~

$ ls -al

total 24

drwxr-xr-x+ 1 MyUser        None    0 Mar 17 12:54 .

drwxrwxrwt+ 1 Administrator None    0 Mar 17 12:54 ..

-rwxr-xr-x  1 MyUser        None 1494 Oct 29 15:34 .bash_profile

-rwxr-xr-x  1 MyUser        None 6054 Oct 29 15:34 .bashrc

-rwxr-xr-x  1 MyUser        None 1919 Oct 29 15:34 .inputrc

-rwxr-xr-x  1 MyUser        None 1236 Oct 29 15:34 .profile

MyUser@MYWINDOWSHOST ~

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa

Generating public/private rsa key pair.

Enter file in which to save the key (/home/MyUser/.ssh/id_rsa):

Created directory ‘/home/MyUser/.ssh’.

Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):

Enter same passphrase again:

Your identification has been saved in /home/MyUser/.ssh/id_rsa.

Your public key has been saved in /home/MyUser/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.

The key fingerprint is:

7d:40:12:1c:7b:c1:7f:39:ac:f5:1a:c5:73:ae:81:34 MyUser@MYWINDOWSHOST

The key’s randomart image is:

+–[ RSA 2048]—-+

|       .++o      |

|        .+..     |

|        . o. . o |

|         o .E *.+|

|        S …* =o|

|           .o o o|

|               = |

|              o  |

|                 |

+—————–+

MyUser@MYWINDOWSHOST ~

$ cd .ssh

MyUser@MYWINDOWSHOST ~/.ssh

$ ls

id_rsa  id_rsa.pub

MyUser@MYWINDOWSHOST ~/.ssh

$ touch authorized_keys

Generate the key in source ON UNIX SERVER

 $ ssh-keygen -t rsa

Generating public/private rsa key pair.

Enter file in which to save the key (/home/MyUser/.ssh/id_rsa):

Created directory ‘/home/MyUser/.ssh’.

Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):

Enter same passphrase again:

Your identification has been saved in /home/MyUser/.ssh/id_rsa.

Your public key has been saved in /home/MyUser/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.

The key fingerprint is:

7d:40:12:1c:7b:c1:7f:39:ac:f5:1a:c5:73:ae:81:34 MyUser@MYWINDOWSHOST

The key’s randomart image is:

+–[ RSA 2048]—-+

|       .++o      |

|        .+..     |

|        . o. . o |

|         o .E *.+|

|        S …* o|

|           .o o o|

|               = |

|              o  |

|                 |

+—————–+

MyUser@MYUNIXSHOST ~

$ cd .ssh

MyUser@MYUNIXHOST ~/.ssh

$ ls

id_rsa  id_rsa.pub

Then push that rsa_pub into that destination authorized_keys

cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh MyUser@MYWINDOWSHOST ‘cat >>  .ssh/authorized_keys’

 

ssh  -v MyUser@MYWINDOWSHOST

—> YOU SHOULD BE ABLE LOGIN PASSWORD LESS

Credits :- Priyanka Padad (Operations Expert)

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