Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:59:59 +0200 Message-ID: From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Schaible?= To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j7I70GvF021757 Ensure that .ssh is 700 and id_rsa is 600. Otherwise ssh will not take'em ... and this is standard on all OS. Christopher Benson-Manica wrote on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 10:16 PM: > 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. Supposed solutions, such as adding > CYGWIN=ntsec or CYGWIN=ntea to .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. > > -- > Christopher Benson-Manica > ataru(at)sdf.lonestar.org -- 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/