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Subject: Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:31:05 -0700
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id_rsa is 400 here and that works fine.  You don't need anyone to read your
private key file.  Have a look at the wincvs documentation which explains how to
connect ssh with wincvs.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jörg Schaible" <Joerg DOT Schaible AT Elsag-Solutions DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:59 PM
Subject: RE: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa



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

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