X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: From: Karl M To: Subject: chmod problem Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 13:16:50 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id q34KHI15009336 Hi All... On a recent Cygwin install on a new win7-64 machine, I ran into a problem. The ssh service would not start because the protection on the /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key was too weak. (I use only the rsa host key.) If I chmod the file to 600, all is well. But...if I do it within a shell script, the chmod has no effect. Below is a short test case and a bash -x run of the script? $ cat test-config chown administrators /etc/ssh* ls -al /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key chmod -v 600 /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key ls -al /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key $ cat test-config chown administrators /etc/ssh* ls -al /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key chmod -v 600 /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key ls -al /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key $ bash -x test-config + chown administrators /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub /etc/sshd_config + ls -al /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key -rw-rw---- 1 Administrators root 1675 Apr 4 11:30 /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key + chmod -v 600 /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key mode of `/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key' changed from 0660 (rw-rw----) to 0600 (rw-------) + ls -al /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key -rw-rw---- 1 Administrators root 1675 Apr 4 11:30 /etc/ssh_host_rsa_key This test was on a fresh (1.7.12) from this morning. Long term, this may be a csih issue, but I was just making a workaround for now...but my workaroung failed to workaround. Thanks, ...Karl -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple