MSYS build - stage 2 problem

Gour gour at mail.inet.hr
Mon Mar 1 13:05:43 EST 2004


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

> Aha!  You are prepared to type in a passphrase!  What I want to do (and
> have happily been doing for years) is to let ssh use my .ssh/identity
> file instead.  But it won't, because it sees that it's world-readable,
> and, probably rightly, regards that as insecure.

On Linux (Gentoo), I'm using keychain which uses ssh-agent and also no need
for passwords, but have no experience on Win32.

> I think it'll work if I use a passphrase.  But it seems wrong that ssh
> should regard my identity file as world-readable when it absolutely
> isn't.  That's my problem.


Does it work?

Sincerely,
Gour

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