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"Bad owner or permissions" error using Cygwin's ssh.exe

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I'm trying to use ssh.exe in Cygwin (in Windows 7). I copied a file into . When I run (for example, ) I get the following error: OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011 Bad owner or permissions on /home/[USERNAME]/.ssh/config How do I get to read my configuration file?

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Fix for: "Bad owner or permissions" error using Cygwin's ssh.exe

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After doing as above, I always got this: and the error on . So I've run on the folder, and again like this: and then: and finally I got it working: Edit(for bash on Windows10) When you get the error.. Failed to add the host to the list of known host…

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