MSYS build - stage 2 problem

[Gour]

Simon Peyton-Jones (simonpj at microsoft.com) wrote:

> SO here's what happens now.  ssh complains that the identity file isn't
> read-protected.  and indeed ls -l says
> 	$ ls -l identity
> 	-rw-r--r--    1 simonpj  Administ      541 Feb 27 13:56 identity
> 
> But chmod is a no-op!  Altering the permissions using Windows, so that
> only I have any permissions at all, and then only for reading,  changes
> nothing -- that is, msys 'ls' stubbornly goes on insisting that identity
> is readable by others.  So ssh doesn't work as it should.
> 
> How can I change the permissions so that ls/ssh see it as
> non-world-readable?

I just tried with: chmod -v 400 file 

and it shows that it is properly chmod-ed, although ls -al still shows old 
permissions (I tried to removed it and was asked if I want to remove protected
file.)

Sincerely,
Gour

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