Recently I’ve been unable to clone or push to github, and I’m trying to find the root cause.
This is on windows
I have cygwin + git as well as msysgit.
Msysgit was installed with the following options:
- OpenSSH
- Use Git from Windows Command Prompt
That gives me 4 environments to try to use git in:
- Windows cmd prompt
- Powershell
- Git Bash
- Cygwin
Somehow I’ve managed to get myself into a position where when I try to clone a repository using msysgit, cmd.exe, or Powershell, I get the following error:
> Initialized empty Git repository in
> C:/sandbox/SomeProject/.git/
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> @ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> Permissions 0644 for
> '/c/Users/Ben/.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. bad permissions: ignore key:
> /c/Users/Ben/.ssh/id_rsa Permission
> denied (publickey). fatal: The remote
> end hung up unexpectedly
This is using the .ssh folder in my c:\users\ben\ folder, which is what is used by msysgit. I suspect cygwin works because the .ssh folder is located elsewhere, but I’m not sure why
In Git Bash, I check the permissions:
$ ls -l -a ~/.ssh
Which gives me:
drwxr-xr-x 2 Ben Administ 0 Oct 12 13:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 34 Ben Administ 8192 Oct 12 13:15 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 Ben Administ 1743 Oct 12 12:36 id_rsa
-rw-r--r-- 1 Ben Administ 399 Oct 12 12:36 id_rsa.pub
-rw-r--r-- 1 Ben Administ 407 Oct 12 13:09 known_hosts
These permissions are apparently too relaxed. How they got this way, I have no idea.
I can try to change them…
$ chmod -v -R 600 ~/.ssh
which tells me:
mode of `.ssh' changed to 0600 (rw-------)
mode of `.ssh/id_rsa' changed to 0600 (rw-------)
mode of `.ssh/id_rsa.pub' changed to 0600 (rw-------)
mode of `.ssh/known_hosts' changed to 0600 (rw-------)
But it seems to have no effect. I still get the same error, and doing
$ ls -l -a ~/.ssh
yields the same permissions as before.
UPDATE:
I tried to fix the permissions to those files in cygwin, and cygwin reports their permissions correctly, gitbash does not:
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Any ideas on how I can really fix these permissions?
