ssh “permissions are too open” error

I had a problem with my mac where I couldn’t save any kind of file on the disk anymore.
I had to reboot OSX lion and reset the permissions on files and acls.

But now when I want to commit a repository I get the following error from ssh:

Permissions 0777 for '/Users/username/.ssh/id_rsa' are too open.
It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
This private key will be ignored.

What permissions levels should i give to the id_rsa file?

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