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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:47:11 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: File Permissions
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Duane Barb wrote:

> I'm runnig the latest cygwin release on Windows XP. I'm having problems with
> file permissions in cygwin, chmod doesn't seem to work. After googling this I
> set the CYGWIN variable to "ntsec" and it still doesn't work. I first discovered

ntsec is enabled by default, so adding "ntsec" to CYGWIN does nothing.

> this when trying to use a pub/priv key with ssh, ssh complains that the id_rsa
> file is world readable and won't use it! How can I fix this?

We'll need more information, such as your "cygcheck -svr" output.  Is
the file on a network share or a non-NTFS volume?

Brian

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