On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:17 PM, > On 12/6/2012 10:10 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: >> >> On 12/6/2012 9:15 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: >>> >>> >>> a workaround was already available on first link you provided >>> >>> chgrp -R Users ~/.ssh >>> >> >> I had tried this earlier running the chgrp.exe, but it threw an error >> saying unknown group 'Users'. I assume this is because when chgrp.exe >> is located outside of the default cygwin directory, it doesn't know >> where to find the group file. I also attempted to create a separate >> file where i'd dump the contents of my private key into, but that file >> seems to also be afflicted by this permissions problem of having 660 >> with no group set. > > > have you a /etc/group file ? > I have one in the cygwin install directory. It's not clear where the /etc/group file should be put if chgrp.exe is being executed via a shell command and is located outside the cygwin directory (in this case it's going to be located in an application folder in %LOCALAPPDATA%).
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