X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <47F23916.5020608@lists.cichon.com> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:31:02 +0200 From: Public Mailing Lists User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060417 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: ssh: issue with file permissions on Samba network shares Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Hi guys, I got a Linux home directory. On Windows, this directory imported as Windows share, and I mount it under Cygwin. This way, I can use all my Linux settings dot-files, and I don't see the Windows path name mess that much. Ssh (OpenSSH_4.7p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007) on Cygwin refuses to read my private key from the .ssh directory. It complains like this: > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > @ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @ > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > Permissions 0644 for '/home/xxxxxxx/.ssh/id_rsa' are too open. > It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by > others. > This private key will be ignored. > bad permissions: ignore key: /home/xxxxxxxx/.ssh/id_rsa > xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx's password: and then, it asks me for a password. That's quite inconvenient, as I intend to run lots of commands from a shell script on another host using ssh. It's nice of ssh to care so much about my file permissions. However, in this environment with Windows and Cygwin, I don't have that much control over my file permissions, do I? Has anybody else experienced this phenomenon? What is the most elegant (or recommended) way of dealing with this situation? TIA Cheers, Gordon -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/