hi Antony, i changed the permissions of my ssh config file with *chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config *but it didnt help. why would i get an ssh error when i'm trying to ping?
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 1:48 PM Antony Stone < antony.st...@ansible.open.source.it> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 February 2021 at 19:21:03, Ken Cheng wrote: > > > i'm sorry if this was already covered but why does ansible's ping module > > giving me an ssh error? > > > > i installed ansible version 2.9.17 on a centos vm. that vm can ping & ssh > > to my test destination router from the command line. for some reason > > "ansible lab -m ping" gives me an ssh error. my /etc/ansible/hosts file > > looks ok (i just started with ansible this monday). what am i missing? > > Not to put too fine a point on it, I think what you are missing is reading > the > error message: > > > Permissions 0644 for '/home/xyz/.ssh/known_hosts' are too open. > > It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others. > > This private key will be ignored. > > So, change that mode 644 to 600 and all should be fine. > > > Antony. > > -- > Numerous psychological studies over the years have demonstrated that the > majority of people genuinely believe they are not like the majority of > people. > > Please reply to the > list; > please *don't* CC > me. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAFqN8snapYeGfnTgzVch%2BmSjJd%2BK7%3D3cKOZpU3JYfgEERUK8iw%40mail.gmail.com.
