Duane Barb wrote: > I'm runnig the latest cygwin release on Windows XP. I'm having problems with > file permissions in cygwin, chmod doesn't seem to work. After googling this I > set the CYGWIN variable to "ntsec" and it still doesn't work. I first > discovered
ntsec is enabled by default, so adding "ntsec" to CYGWIN does nothing. > this when trying to use a pub/priv key with ssh, ssh complains that the id_rsa > file is world readable and won't use it! How can I fix this? We'll need more information, such as your "cygcheck -svr" output. Is the file on a network share or a non-NTFS volume? Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/