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Re: CYGWIN - This Private Key Will Be Ignored
On 2008-02-10 13:49Z, [raw email address removed] wrote:
>
> For some reason I am now seeing the following in my ssh login screen
> and I am unable to use my CVS...
> http://www.bodnarchuk.com/GB/cygwin_this_private_key_will_be_ignored.jpg
Transcribing from that screenshot (you could cut and paste it...):
WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!
Permissions 0644 for [file] are too open
The first thing I'd try is
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa
Then, only if 'chmod' doesn't work, see:
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.chmod
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