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Re: can't change a file's permissions + some ssh


>On Jun  7 17:46, Marilo wrote: 
>> after some fiddling with ssh.. removing the service, removing keys, re-running ssh-host-config, I got this >error 
>> 
>> harvey@samsung350 ~ 
>> $ tail /var/log/sshd.log 
>> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 
>> @         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @ 
>> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 
>> Permissions 0670 for '/etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key' are too open. 
>> It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others. 
>> This private key will be ignored. 
>> bad permissions: ignore key: /etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key 
>> Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key 
>> Disabling protocol version 2. Could not load host key 
>> sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting. 
>> 
>> 
>> So I tried changing the file's permissions but I can't seem to change them 
>> 
>> harvey@samsung350 ~ 
>> $ ls -l /etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key 
>> -rw-rwx---+ 1 cyg_server root 411 Jun  7 17:23 /etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key 
>> 
>> harvey@samsung350 ~ 
>> $ chmod 600 /etc/ssh_* 
>> 
>> harvey@samsung350 ~ 
>> $ ls -l /etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key 
>> -rw-rwx---+ 1 cyg_server root 411 Jun  7 17:23 /etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key 

>Note the extra permissions indicated by the trailing '+'.  Try 
>`setfacl -b /etc/ssh_host_ed25519_key'. 
>Corinna 


Thanks.. 

I reinstalled cygwin so as to update setfacl to include -b and then ran that command and then ssh works.

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