[Bug 1909] New: "WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!" warning needs an actionable step

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Thu May 26 14:22:23 EST 2011


https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1909

           Summary: "WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!" warning needs
                    an actionable step
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: -current
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: trivial
          Priority: P2
         Component: ssh
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: zhitomirskiyi at gmail.com


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@         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
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Permissions 0644 for '........./.ssh/id_rsa' are too open.
It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by
others.
This private key will be ignored.
bad permissions: ignore key: ...../.ssh/id_rsa
Permission denied (publickey).


This needs to say something along the lines of we recommend changing
the permissions of ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to 600

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