Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

Andrew DeFaria Andrew@DeFaria.com
Thu Aug 18 19:18:00 GMT 2005


Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:56:15AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>> It appears as if your home directory is on the H drive and this is 
>> mounted from another system. Thus CYGWIN=ntsec does not apply because 
>> this is a share mounted using SMB. Thus, as I said before, you need 
>> to set CYGWIN=smbntsec and try again.
>
> My apologies for missing your earlier reply; the joke is on me, 
> actually, as your suggestion did the trick - I could have spared
> myself some frustration yesterday :-) Anyway, thank you.

You're welcome. To me it's just not natural to think of having ntsec 
without smbntsec. I forget what, if any, issues might have been 
involved. I can't think of a situation where you'd want Cygwin to honor 
ntsec but not honor smbntsec...

-- 
What if there were no hypothetical questions?


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