2018-01-04

Cygwin: Permissions 0660 for '~/.ssh/id_rsa' are too open.

Environment:

  • MS Windows 8.1
  • Cygwin 64bit
  • ssh keys copied from somewhere and placed to ~/.ssh/

Problem:

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@         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
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Permissions 0660 for '~/.ssh/id_rsa' are too open.
It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
This private key will be ignored.
bad permissions: ignore key: ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Did not work:

  • chmod 600 id_rsa
  • chmod 700 .ssh
  • Playing with Windows security panels
  • Setting group to SYSTEM
  • Everything else

Solution:

Found on Vineet Gupta's blog http://vineetgupta.com/blog/cygwin-permissions-bug-on-windows-8

chgrp Users id_rsa
chmod 600 id_rsa

Now, all works. Thank you, Vineet!

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