SSH Private Key Permissions using Git GUI or ssh-keygen are too open

Question

Recently I\'ve been unable to clone or push to github, and I\'m trying to find the root cause.

This is on windows

I have cygwin + git as well as msy

Answer 1

None of the workarounds suggested here (chmod/chgrp/setfacl/windows perms) worked for me with msys64 on a Windows 7 corporate VM. In the end I worked around the problem by using an ssh agent with the key provided on stdin. Adding this to my .bash_profile makes it the default for my login:

eval $(ssh-agent -s)
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa | ssh-add -k -

Now I can do git push and pull with ssh remotes.