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RE: key permission problem $CYGWIN=ntea, OPENSSH
- To: "'Colliver, Robert'" <Colliver dot Robert at broadband dot att dot com>, "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: key permission problem $CYGWIN=ntea, OPENSSH
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-scm dot com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 00:25:22 +0100
Hi Robert,
if you are really doing
$ export $CYGWIN=
try getting rid of extra $ and try
$ export CYGWIN=
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-scm.com)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colliver, Robert [SMTP:Colliver.Robert@broadband.att.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 17:43
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: key permission problem $CYGWIN=ntea, OPENSSH
>
> After I set $CYGWIN=ntea I'm getting strange results chmod'ing files.
> Specifcally my .ssh/id_dsa private key file for openssh. It needs to have
> -rw------- permissions, but I'm seeing this:
>
> $ export $CYGWIN=ntea
> $ chmod 600 id_dsa
> $ ls -l id_dsa
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Administ None 736 Oct 29 13:05 id_dsa
>
> At which point SSH fails because it thinks the key file is world readable.
> So for grins I do this:
>
> $ export $CYGWIN=""
> $ chmod 600 id_dsa
> $ ls -l id_dsa
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Administ None 736 Oct 29 13:05 id_dsa
>
> Now SSH is perfectly happy... But I can't figure out why. Is the flat
> file
> that hold the extended attribute for "ntea" corrupted?
>
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