Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: From: Heribert Dahms To: "'Colliver, Robert'" , "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" Subject: RE: key permission problem $CYGWIN=ntea, OPENSSH Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 00:25:22 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Hi Robert, if you are really doing $ export $CYGWIN= try getting rid of extra $ and try $ export CYGWIN= Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-scm DOT com) > -----Original Message----- > From: Colliver, Robert [SMTP:Colliver DOT Robert AT broadband DOT att DOT com] > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 17:43 > To: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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? > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/