Re: unprotected private key error.

[Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>]

At 01:52 PM 3/28/2005, you wrote:
>Hi Cywin users,
>I have installed Cygwin on my windows machine that is on a domain. I am trying
>to rsync to a linux machine. This is the error i get when i run the rsync
>command with ssh enabled. I guess the problem is because the Cygwin is
>installed on a shared network drive. Is there any turnaround for this.
>
>Thanks
>Walter.
>
>WARNING:UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE
>Permission 0644 for '/cygdrive/z/.ssh/id_dsa' are too open.
>It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
>This private key will be ignored.
>bad permissions:ignore key: /cygdrive/z/.ssh/id_dsa
>Enter passphrase for key '/cygdrive/z/.ssh/id_dsa':


What would be wrong with removing the read permissions for the groups and 
others positions (i.e. 'chmod go-r /cygdrive/z/.ssh/id_dsa')?  That's at 
least what's causing the initial warning and the fix that's implied by 
the above message.


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