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Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa


On Aug 18 11:12, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, 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.
> 
> This would also produce a chicken-and-egg problem for the OP: if the share
> requires authentication, id_rsa won't be accessible until the user types
> in a password, thus preventing any hope of public key authentication.
> 	Igor

You're mixing id_rsa with authorized_keys.  id_rsa, the private key,
is only used when authenticating against another machine.


Corinna

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