Vineet Gupta

I recently upgraded to Windows 8, installed cygwin, copied my keys and config files, etc. only to find that things stopped working. Try ssh [email protected] and you get: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Permissions 0660 for ‘/home/Vineet/.ssh/id_rsa’ are too open. It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible [...]

This is just a jotting down of thoughts I have been having for the last couple of weeks. Had an interesting discussion with Pandu on this last evening and I thought it would be valuable writing down some of the key takeaways. Most of this is early thinking, but I think that as programmers, all [...]