[wellylug] (semi-linux question - pushing the limit ) ssh on win nt 4 server

[Jamie Baddeley]

well, it seems to me that id_rsa having permissions beyond 600 is
probably a hardcoded ssh thing. Have you tried chmod'ing appropriately?

jamie
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 21:26, Mark Signal wrote:
> Hi
> Sorry but its question time again
> 
> I am endeavouring to rsync data off of an nt4 server to a remote Linux
> backup box via ssh (cygwin) using preshared keys.
> If I manually start the backup batch file (as administrator) on the nt box
> it all works fine. But (there is always a but) if I run it as a scheduled
> task (as administrator) it fails - with ssh complaining that ...
> 
> Permissions of 0444 for '/.ssh/id_rsa are too open. bad permissions blah
> blah blah.
> 
> Administrator is the files owner and is the only user permitted access...
> 
> Its got me stuffed - anyone got any polite ideas????
> 
> And before you suggest it - it would already be a Linux box if the customer
> didn't need exchange's shared calendars...
> 
> 
> cheers
> 
> 
> Mark Signal
> 
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