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Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 18:01:31 -0700
- Subject: Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa
- References: <20050817201613.GA13524@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:
> How does one set permissions on id_rsa in such a way as to make ssh
> happy? Nothing I have done has made chmod 700 id_rsa actually work.
chmod 600 has always worked fine for me.
> Supposed solutions, such as adding CYGWIN=ntsec or CYGWIN=ntea to
ntsec is the default, so adding it to $CYGWIN is a no-op. ntea only
applies if the volume is not NTFS.
> .bashrc and/or cygwin.bat, have not worked. If someone could
> enlighten me with a solution that actually DOES work, or a pointer to
> such a solution, I would be most grateful.
We will probably need more information: Output of "cygcheck -svr" and
"ls -ld / /home ~ ~/.ssh ~/.ssh/id_rsa" would be a good start.
Brian
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