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I have two Windows machines running on Ubuntu virtual box. Both machines have OpenSSH installed. I can connect from one to another using ssh and passwords, but I can not figure out how to use keys.

I generated keys on the client machine using ssh-keygen -t rsa, saved the public key on the remote machine as authorized_keys in the folder C:\Users\username\.ssh and changed the settings to PasswordAuthentication no in Program Files\OpenSSH\etc\sshd_config and restarted SSH server. When I try to connect I get an error

Permission denied (public key,keyboard-interactive)

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  • What's your OpenSSH Windows installation based on? Cygwin on MinGW? Why do you think that the ~ maps to C:\Users\username?
    – Martin Prikryl
    Commented Oct 5, 2015 at 14:52
  • I'm not quite sure how to check if it is based on Cygwin, but bin directory contains cygwin1.dll
    – Vitaly Ivanov
    Commented Oct 5, 2015 at 15:11

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Under Cygwin the root (/) maps by default to C:\cygwin (or cygwin64 on 64-bit).

So the /home/username/.ssh folder should be under C:\cygwin\home\username\.ssh

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