[MinGW-dvlpr] Re: Msys difficulty

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

>| >Looking at the source code, I cannot see how authfile.c can *ever*
>agree
>| >to use my identity file, so long as fstat reports it as
>world-readable.
>| >That one snippet of code seems to fundamentally rule out *any* use of
>| >.ssh/identity, and hence any hope of RSA-based authentication using
>| >MSYS.
>
>
>| I'll take a look at this source piece.
>
>Thank you.  I cannot account for the fact that you seem to have RSA
>working (albeit with a passphrase) and I can't get it working (with or
>without passphrase) because of the permission problem.
>
>  
>
Do you have a CYGWIN environment variable set?  What happens if you 
remove it?

Earnie

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