SSH Key: “Permissions 0644 for 'id_rsa.pub' are too open.” on mac

土豆丫 picture 土豆丫 · Apr 29, 2015 · Viewed 347.6k times · Source

I generate a ssh key pair on my mac and add the public key to my ubuntu server(in fact, it is a virtual machine on my mac),but when I try to login the ubuntu server,it says:

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@         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
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Permissions 0644 for '/Users/tudouya/.ssh/vm/vm_id_rsa.pub' 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: /Users/tudouya/.ssh/vm/vm_id_rsa.pub
Permission denied (publickey,password).

I have tried many ways to solve this, change the key file mode, change the folder mode,as some answer on stackoverflow,but it doesn't work.
the key file permission:

vm dir:
drwxr-xr-x   4 tudouya  staff    136  4 29 10:37 vm

key file:
-rw-------  1 tudouya  staff  1679  4 29 10:30 vm_id_rsa
-rw-r--r--  1 tudouya  staff   391  4 29 10:30 vm_id_rsa.pub

please give me some idea... =========================================

I write the host infomation to ssh_config:

Host ubuntuvm
    Hostname 10.211.55.17
    PreferredAuthentications publickey
    IdentityFile /Users/tudouya/.ssh/vm/vm_id_rsa.pub

I run command "ssh -v ubuntuvm",it displays:

ssh -v ubuntuvm
OpenSSH_6.2p2, OSSLShim 0.9.8r 8 Dec 2011
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for *
debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 103: Applying options for *
debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 175: Applying options for ubuntuvm
debug1: Connecting to 10.211.55.17 [10.211.55.17] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/tudouya/.ssh/vm/vm_id_rsa.pub type 1
debug1: identity file /Users/tudouya/.ssh/vm/vm_id_rsa.pub-cert type -1
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.2
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_6.6.1p1 Ubuntu-8
debug1: match: OpenSSH_6.6.1p1 Ubuntu-8 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr [email protected] none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr [email protected] none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
debug1: Server host key: RSA 55:6d:4f:0f:23:51:ac:8e:70:01:ec:0e:62:9e:1c:10
debug1: Host '10.211.55.17' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /Users/tudouya/.ssh/known_hosts:54
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering RSA public key: /Users/tudouya/.ssh/vm/vm_id_rsa.pub
debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 279
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@         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
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Permissions 0644 for '/Users/tudouya/.ssh/vm/vm_id_rsa.pub' 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: /Users/tudouya/.ssh/vm/vm_id_rsa.pub
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (publickey,password).

Answer

Rick Benetti picture Rick Benetti · Jun 12, 2016

I suggest you to do:

chmod 400 ~/.ssh/id_rsa

It works fine for me.