Ssh – Why is the SSH connection being closed immediately after pubkey auth succeeds

cygwin;sshsshd

I've two windows machine and trying to SSH using CYGWIN. It works fine when password prompted. However, when I generated the private/public pair, looks like authentication succeeded, but got the connection closed error.

Here's the detail logs: Please help

debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug3: start over, passed a different list publickey,password,keyboard-interactive
debug3: preferred publickey,keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey
debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password
debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/502537203/.ssh/id_rsa
debug3: send_pubkey_test
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply
debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
Authenticated to hostname ([x.x.x.x]:22).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug3: ssh_session2_open: channel_new: 0
debug2: channel 0: send open
debug3: send packet: type 90
debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com
debug3: send packet: type 80
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: pledge: network
debug3: send packet: type 1
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
debug3: channel 0: status: The following connections are open:
  #0 client-session (t3 r-1 i0/0 o0/0 fd 4/5 cc -1)

Connection to hostname closed by remote host.
Connection to hostname closed.
Transferred: sent 2056, received 1500 bytes, in 0.0 seconds
debug1: Exit status -1

Best Answer

It's working now. I did the following

  1. set the permission for ~/.ssh 0700
  2. all the files under ~/.ssh 0600
  3. run the sshd service as cyg_server id (created during ssh-host-config)
  4. edit /etc/sshd_config to allow PubkeyAuthentication yes
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