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

[Jamie Baddeley]

bugger.

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 21:49, Jamie Baddeley wrote:
> well, it seems to me that id_rsa having permissions beyond 600 
> [and ssh complaining]
> 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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