Ssh is secure protocol andit tries to make everything properly to continue securely. There are a lot of different ssh security configuration. It one of them are violated ssh do not operates one of them is
1 2 3 | Permissions 0777 for '/Users/username/.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. |
error. It is related with the permission of id_rsa file. If the permission is like 777 it will give this error and will not start. To correct this error the permission of the id_rsa file has to changed more secure level like 600.
1 2 3 | root@ubu1:~# chmod 400 .ssh/id_rsa root@ubu1:~# ls -al .ssh/id_rsa -r-------- 1 root root 1675 Nov 2 16:33 .ssh/id_rsa |
