Re: Seems like a bug with mkfifo -m

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On May 28 13:39, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On 5/28/2020 1:31 PM, yoshi kakbudto wrote:
> > you say  'ls' is a problem source. Then i have to be more specific with the
> > problem to not miss any other possible problems around it.
> > 
> > My use case is this: I have an ssh rsa keys dynamically loaded in
> > environment variables.
> > Those variables then expaned and piped to the named pipe and then the pipe
> > instantly read by ssh-add.
> > I know there could be other ways to ssh-add from environment, but its just
> > our specifics.
> > So the actual commands looks like this:
> > 
> > $ mkfifo -m 0600 somefifo
> > 
> > # The KEY contains ssh rsa private key data
> > $ echo $KEY > somefifo | ssh-add somefifo
> > 
> > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> > @         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
> > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> > Permissions 0644 for 'somefifo' are too open.
> > It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
> > This private key will be ignored.
> 
> Sorry, I shouldn't have said the problem was with ls.  The problem was
> actually with stat, and it's fixed now.  You should be able to test it the
> next time Corinna creates a snapshot.

Done.  Try the latest snapshot from https://cygwin.com/snapshots/


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer