Hi Robert,

if you are really doing

$ export $CYGWIN=

try getting rid of extra $ and try
 
$ export CYGWIN=


Bye, Heribert ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colliver, Robert [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 17:43
> To:   '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject:      key permission problem $CYGWIN=ntea, OPENSSH
> 
> After I set $CYGWIN=ntea I'm getting strange results chmod'ing files.
> Specifcally my .ssh/id_dsa private key file for openssh.  It needs to have
> -rw------- permissions, but I'm seeing this:
> 
> $ export $CYGWIN=ntea 
> $ chmod 600 id_dsa
> $ ls -l id_dsa
> -rw-r--r--    1 Administ None          736 Oct 29 13:05 id_dsa
> 
> At which point SSH fails because it thinks the key file is world readable.
> So for grins I do this:
> 
> $ export $CYGWIN=""
> $ chmod 600 id_dsa
> $ ls -l id_dsa
> -rw-r--r--    1 Administ None          736 Oct 29 13:05 id_dsa
> 
> Now SSH is perfectly happy... But I can't figure out why.  Is the flat
> file
> that hold the extended attribute for "ntea" corrupted?
> 

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