Bug#103677: ssh-agent no longer seems to loop with bad permissions

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

forwarded 103677 http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1138
tags 103677 fixed-upstream
thanks

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 06:43:57PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> Package: ssh
> Version: 1:3.8.1p1-8.sarge.4
> Followup-For: Bug #103677
> 
> Just to say, since bug #103677 is four years old and still open, that
> the version of ssh in the current Debian stable release (3.1) does not
> exhibit this behaviour:
[...]
> grimoire@host:~$ ssh-add
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> @         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> Permissions 0640 for '/home/grimoire/.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: /home/grimoire/.ssh/id_rsa
> Enter passphrase for /home/grimoire/.ssh/id_rsa:

I think it's still partly there; note how it still asks for the
passphrase even though it's going to ignore it. This is upstream bug
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1138, fixed in 4.4.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]