Re: ssh-add refuses to use the key on my USB thumb drive

2013-12-12 Thread Mark H. Wood
Or 'mount -o umask=077' I think. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Machines should not be friendly. Machines should be obedient. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ssh-add refuses to use the key on my USB thumb drive

2013-12-11 Thread Alan Buxey
Use Google? ;) mount_msdosfs -u x -m 700 /dev/usbdevice /mnt/ where -u is the uid of your required user. alan -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

ssh-add refuses to use the key on my USB thumb drive

2013-12-11 Thread Mark Jason Dominus
This is because the thumb drive is a vfat device, which has a very limited permissions model. The permissions of every file, as reported by the device driver, are always 0644, and there is no escape. When I try to add the identity from the key file, ssh-add says: