id_rsa is 400 here and that works fine. You don't need anyone to read your private key file. Have a look at the wincvs documentation which explains how to connect ssh with wincvs. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jörg Schaible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <cygwin@cygwin.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:59 PM Subject: RE: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa
Ensure that .ssh is 700 and id_rsa is 600. Otherwise ssh will not take'em ... and this is standard on all OS. Christopher Benson-Manica wrote on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 10:16 PM: > 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. Supposed solutions, such as adding > CYGWIN=ntsec or CYGWIN=ntea to .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. > > -- > Christopher Benson-Manica > ataru(at)sdf.lonestar.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
