Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

[Brian Dessent]

Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:

> 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.

chmod 600 has always worked fine for me.

> Supposed solutions, such as adding CYGWIN=ntsec or CYGWIN=ntea to

ntsec is the default, so adding it to $CYGWIN is a no-op.  ntea only
applies if the volume is not NTFS.

> .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.

We will probably need more information: Output of "cygcheck -svr" and
"ls -ld / /home ~ ~/.ssh ~/.ssh/id_rsa" would be a good start.

Brian

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