I am trying to do ssh connection using cygwin. I have followed instructions given here. When I fire ssh localhost command I get Connection closed by ::1 error. As I am newbie to unix and cygwin, I am not able to figure out what has gone wrong. Please can anyone tell me why this error comes and how to resolve it?
My cygwin shell looks as follows :
$ ssh-keygen
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/home/Shekhar/.ssh/id_rsa):
/home/Shekhar/.ssh/id_rsa already exists.
Overwrite (y/n)? y
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /home/Shekhar/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/Shekhar/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
85:69:77:cc:fd:21:8a:ce:fe:46:41:ee:c8:e7:3d:7b Shekhar@Shekhar-PC
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ RSA 2048]----+
| |
| o + . |
| + = +... |
| . o.+. ...|
| S.o.. .|
| oo + |
| o+ . |
| . o o E |
| .o. .+ |
+-----------------+
Shekhar@Shekhar-PC ~
$ cd ~/.ssh/
Shekhar@Shekhar-PC ~/.ssh
$ ls -l
total 10
-rw-r--r-- 1 Shekhar None 1200 Jun 16 19:49 authorized_keys
-rw------- 1 Shekhar None 1675 Jun 20 08:55 id_rsa
-rw-r--r-- 1 Shekhar None 400 Jun 20 08:55 id_rsa.pub
-rw-r--r-- 1 Shekhar None 171 Jun 6 23:28 known_hosts
Shekhar@Shekhar-PC ~/.ssh
$ cat id_rsa.pub >> authorized_keys
Shekhar@Shekhar-PC ~/.ssh
$ ssh localhost
Connection closed by ::1
My problem is solved. I just removed cygwin and re-installed it and somehow its working properly now.