I've installed openssh for windows and when I run ssh localhost I get
Bad owner or permissions on C:\Users\gary/.ssh/config
I've looked at these 2 questions https://superuser.com/questions/348694/bad-owner-or-permissions-error-using-cygwins-ssh-exe and https://serverfault.com/questions/253313/ssh-returns-bad-owner-or-permissions-on-ssh-config but none of the answers work for me. sshd is running as a service as the Local System user. I've run chmod 0600 C:\Users\gary\.ssh\config and chown gary C:\Users\gary\.ssh\config. I've also cleared the ACL by running setfacl -b C:\Users\gary\.ssh\config and then chmod 0600 C:\Users\gary\.ssh\config again. I've also tried changing the owner to SYSTEM and got the same error.
I'm not sure what else to do, is there anything wrong with my setup? I also have git installed which installed mingw, I deleted ssh and sshd from my git installation so they wouldn't be on my path.
Other commands I've run are
icacls "C:\Users\gary\.ssh\config" /setowner gary
chown -R gary:1049089 C:\Users\gary\.ssh
ls -la C:\Users\gary\.ssh\config shows
-rw-r--r-- 1 gary 1049089 229 Jan 3 14:43 'C:\Users\gary.ssh\config'
it keeps showing this even after changing the owner to SYSTEM, but in the file properties in file explorer it shows SYSTEM as the owner
This started popping up immediately after I created another user with Administrator privileges, and that account began inheriting access to my .ssh folder.
You do not need to change your permissions whatsoever.
Just go to .ssh, right-click Properties, Security Tab, Advanced. DISABLE INHERITANCE, then click on the Administrator user (the one that is not you) and Remove them. Apply. Done.
Use ssh client from Git instead of Windows inbuilt SSH client. E.g. set VS Code to use C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\ssh.exe instead of C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\ssh.exe.
Steps:
In VS Code navigated to [File] -> [Preferences] -> [Settings] -> Search remote.ssh.path
Input C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\ssh.exe
Alternatively:
Update PATH environment variable to point to Git bin before Windows System32.
Type "env" in Start bar to edit System (or account) environment variables.
Select Path and hit edit.
Add C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\ssh.exe to the list and move it to the top of the list.
Just got same issue after re-install windows. And easily fixed just by changing the file permissions to
SYSTEM & Administrators - Full Control
[your username] - Modify & as Owner
Note:
I'm still using Windows 10 built-in SSH client C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\ssh.exe & not using cygwin at all
For those still struggling with this, check this out: https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable/pull/418. This was the case for me. It turns out that your computer should be named differently from your username... 🤷‍♂️ It will probably be fixed soon in future updates, because fix got into commit.
So again: if your computer name is the same as your username and you still haven't fixed this issue with permissions dialog, then probably renaming your computer could help.
Instead of using the properties box, you can use the one liner:
icacls .ssh /grant:r <yourUserName>:f /inheritance:r
/grant:r username:f -> grant and overwrite permissions, giving full permissions to username
/inheritance:r -> remove inherited permissions
Keep known_hosts writable with
icacls .ssh/known_hosts /grant:rw <username>:f /inheritance:r
I'm not sure what version of Windows you're running, but since this is recent I'd guess Windows 10. I recently found out that an OpenSSH client is installed by default as of the April 2018 update. I then found I had two instances of OpenSSH: the one I installed myself and the one Windows gave me. Uninstalling the one I had installed caused the error message you describe.
The solution that worked for me was to remove the user-installed OpenSSH as well as the C:\Users\username\.ssh folder, and let Windows 10 OpenSSH create the folder when you run the command the next time. I didn't have any configuration I was worried about losing, but if you do I'd suggest copying and pasting the contents of the files somewhere and recovering them afterwards.
Hope this helps!
Having the exact same issue today, this is how I solved it:
Go to C:\Users\username.ssh
Right-click the config file
Properties -> Security -> Advanced -> Disable Inheritance -> Disable
inheritance -> Remove all inherited permissions from this object ->
Apply -> Yes -> Ok -> Ok
Use FixUserFilePermissions.ps1 to fix permissions of client side files - keys and config files of current user.
git clone git#github.com:PowerShell/openssh-portable.git
cd openssh-portable/contrib/win32/openssh
.\FixUserFilePermissions.ps1 -Confirm:$false
On windows server this is due to permission problem. Need to remove access to other users for the following folders
.ssh - folder
Right click on this folder -> Select "Give access to" - > Click on "Remove Access"
Right click on this folder -> Select "properties" - > "Securities" - > Click on "Edit Permissions" - Remove other users except the ID you are logged in.
Repeat the same process for the folder under which you have .pem file. (Note: Keep .pem file in a separate folder)
For anyone, who still has troubles after applying the owner + modify (plus full control for admins): it did not work for me. Then I saw a solution to remove all other users (incl all admins), which did not help either.
This worked for me:
leave System and Administrators in place, with full control, as suggested above
leave the user itself in place, as owner, with modify, as suggested above
however, remove any other user or group. You probably need to go to advanced first, to disable inheritance of rights
after I removed an administrative user who was added by Windows after entering my folder (by passing through the UAC box), it worked for me again.
Hope this helps for anyone who encounters this specific issue :-)
If User is in Administrative group just keep configuration in
c:\programdata\ssh\ssh_config instead %USERPROFILE%.ssh\config, will work
after disabling inheritance, make sure you add your current user, else u cannot edit the file
For me it was fixed by running chmod 0644 config under ~/.ssh/. Earlier it was set to 755 which was causing "Bad owner or permissions on /home/home/.ssh/config"
I tried all the solutions above, and sadly still can't fix this issue. I'm pretty sure the permission of my ssh config is correct, this has been verified by the Explore GUI and the Get-Acl commands.
Then I finally find a way to solve it:
delete the entire .ssh folder and then open powershell and type ssh localhost. It will create a new .ssh folder for you, then you can apply the above permission tweaks(for me I only did one thing: disable inheritance).
So if other solutions doesn't work for you, maybe you can try this. Hope it's helpful.
PS: don't forget to backup your old .ssh folder before deleting it.
I was having this problem, and no amount of changing permissions or disabling inheritance on the config file would fix it. It turned out that it did not like my computer name and user name being the same, so I re-named my computer, allowed open ssh to re-create the config file, and the permissions are now correct. That was probably a bad idea to begin with, tbh.
I deleted C:\Users\user/.ssh/config and reran my stuff, then it worked.
However, if you have something valuable there, make a backup first, just in case!
After a domain change over, I started having this same problem. Went through all of the suggestions listed and nothing worked, including both chmod and chown solutions.
I ended up fixing the problem by copying the folder, pasting it, deleting the original, and then renaming it back to .ssh.
The problem seems from the files are owned/has-permission for more than one user.
1- Go to your ./ssh folder and for both config & id_rsa files. From the properties -> Security -> Advanced:
2- Make sure that the user that you are logged in with IS the only user there.
No group change or whatever,the first answer is right.Change to git ssh.exe
How?
uninstall win10's openssh in Settings
add path of git's ssh.exe to your Path
For me it was fixed by running chmod 0644 config under ~/.ssh/ when running WSL.
Rename the config file to something like config2
Open this file with notepad
Save As config (original name)
This worked for me.
I guess it was caused by the wrong path expression.
Bad owner or permissions on C:\Users\gary/.ssh/config
The /.ssh should be \.ssh. So I try to use git bash (the terminal tool when install git in Windows system) to run ssh command. It really works. But I don't really know if it is caused by the reason I guessed.
Hi guys after a troubleshoot for a day I found that this "m.. f.." config file should not stand in the .ssh/ path.
For VSCODE just set the config in 'C:\ProgrmaData\ssh\ssh_config' path as proposed in the second choice of the palette command, and forget .shh path for this configuration.
That worked fine for me.
Nota: there was also a known_host file also created here with strange VM names inside, I deleted also this file. and that helps
For me, re-editing the permission settings in Windows is too complicated. Regenerating another configuration in vscode does not work either.
I set a custom config file path to solve this problem.
["Remote SSH: Config file"]
The absolute file path to a custom SSH config file.
note: search this option by #ext:ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh,ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-edit config file
This is because the config file cannot be accessed normally. We can create a new config file (this file needs to be accessible normally), such as D:/.ssh/config, and then specify the configuration file through the -F option: ssh -F D:/.ssh/config username#ip_address -p port
Delete the .config file, it has worked for me
I am using Boot2Docker on Windows and I want to edit file /etc/init.d/docker. After editing it, saving using wq command and reboot command its state is not saved. What I am doing wrong? What I want to achieve is to add configurations with DNS like in attached screen (--bip and --dns):
Is this right place to do this configuration?
That seems expected, considering Boot2Docker is based on the TinyCore distro, which only persists some files in /var/lib/boot2docker/
Typically, I modify /var/lib/boot2docker/profile in order to:
change other files
or export (set) other environment variables
That script will be persisted across TinyCore sessions, and will be executed at each restart.
I installed Wireshark and during the installation it showed an error but the installation itself completed. When I ran the program and tried to capture packets on my network, it showed this error:
I'm new to mac so i don't even know how to properly ask.
Could someone help me?
According to User: gmale's answer on ask.wireshark.org, he solved his problem in this way and I'm sure that it could solve yours as well. It says:
1- Open Terminal
To see your exact user name (for me that was AliGht)
2- Type 'whoami'
3- execute the following commands:
cd /dev
sudo chown AliGht:admin bp*
and enter your computer password:
4- now type this command:
ls -la | grep bp
The last command will display a list of files such as:
5- Make sure all of them have your user name and admin as the user/group. For some reason, the last one didn't get assigned properly so I had to run the command:
sudo chown AliGht:admin bpf4
so the last command fixed my problem as you see in the last image:
Done!
If your WireShark is open then close it and open it again.
All credits of this tutorial goes to user gmale on ask.wireshark.org,
If you want to open WireShark always as administrator then take a look to another post which I created a shortcut for it via Applescript, and this is the only way which you can open the WireShark always as administrator even when you turn off/on your mac.
I don't know how to solve this problem, but if you want a temporary fix, you can use the following command:
$ sudo /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS/Wireshark
Wireshark provides the solution itself, along with the explanation of weird secrets:
add your user to the group "access_bpf" by commanding
sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a `whoami` -t user access_bpf
then launch Wireshark's script
sudo "/Library/Application Support/Wireshark/ChmodBPF/ChmodBPF";
That's all, because (as the script explains):
# Unfortunately, macOS's devfs is based on the old FreeBSD
# one, not the current one, so there's no way to configure it
# to create BPF devices with particular owners or groups. BPF
# devices on macOS are also non-cloning, that is they can
# be created on demand at any time. This startup item will
# pre-create a number of BPF devices, then make them owned by
# the access_bpf group, with permissions rw-rw----, so that
# anybody in the access_bpf group can use programs that capture
# or send raw packets.
If you want to open WireShark always as administrator I suggest to use AppleScript:
Open AppleScript: By pressing cmd+space and write AppleScript Editor in the Spotlight Search as picture below:
Then from File --> Choose NEW
In the open window write:
do shell script "/Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS/Wireshark" ¬
with administrator privileges user name "username" password "password"
Change the "username" and "password" with yours. If you don't know your username in terminal write "whoami" to see your username, password is your computer password!.
Mine is look like this:
Now export your script as Application, by going to --> File --> Export , and change File Format to Application write a name for your file and Save it on your desktop like following pictures:
DONE now run your App from Desktop, and by this way your WireShark runs always by Admin Permission.
I have faced the same problem in MacOS High Sierra (v10.13.6). I have clean-up all dependency files and folders but nothing works for me.
Using the terminal, if I run the following command then it is working -
sudo chmod o+r /dev/bpf*
sudo /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS/Wireshark
This should work.
Run the application from the terminal with the following command:
User$ **sudo Wireshark**
Wireshark should open and packet capture should work then.
Was having same issue with install and run permissions etc. Attempted a few of the above mentioned fixes and although they would come back with the desired result program still would not run properly even with uninstall/install in addition.Getting a bit overwhelmed with it not working after several remedies being attempted I came to one that was super simple and worked -
I simply set up/checked log in as root user. Here you can enable/disable root user account, enable log in account and change root password. So I just switched profiles from my Admin account to the Root account. (I am honestly not sure if its safe to do it this way, so thinking many of you have far more knowledge on this than me I'd appreciate your comments on that!) Also my understanding is that you cannot properly run sudo commands if root account is enabled - So probably just tuning it off if it were on would suffice, but I wanted a quick and easy install at that point. The steps are really easy:
support.apple.com/en-us/HT204012
Then just switch user accounts to root -Log in with "other" then type root and your password.
Now just install Wireshark and it should install and run properly!
**I don't think I would stay in root account after install.
Hope maybe this will help some!
I got same issue and then notice below document provide solution already.
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChBuildInstallOSXInstall.html
2.5. Installing Wireshark under macOS
The official macOS packages are distributed as disk images (.dmg) containing the application bundle. To install Wireshark simply open the disk image and drag Wireshark to your /Applications folder.
In order to capture packets, you must install the “ChmodBPF” launch daemon. You can do so by opening the Install ChmodBPF.pkg file in the Wireshark .dmg or from Wireshark iself by opening Wireshark → About Wireshark selecting the “Folders” tab, and double-clicking “macOS Extras”.
The installer package includes Wireshark along with ChmodBPF and system path packages. See the included Read me first.html file for more details.
I do not want to modify my folder permissions on my system device files like the accepted answer, but I was able to get permissions by opening Wireshark like this:
sudo /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS/Wireshark
Bonus, you can add an alias to your ~/.zshrc:
alias ws="sudo /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS/Wireshark"
Now execute the file: (or you can open a new terminal window)
source ~/.zshrc
Open wireshark with super user permissions:
ws
I have Vagrant set up on one of my computers. I would like to change the location of its virtual hard drive, which is currently in the default location. How can I do this without breaking Vagrant?
I have Vagrant set up with VirtualBox 4.2.
EDIT: I mean that I want to move the location of the VirtualBox machine folder, which is currently at C:\Users\Kevin\VirtualBox VMs\my_vm\box-disk1.vmdk.
Not sure if you want to change the ~/.vagrant.d or VirtualBox default machine folder.
If you want to move ~/.vagrant.d to somewhere else. You can set environment variable VAGRANT_HOME, see this https://stackoverflow.com/a/14804694/1801697
Update:
To change VirtualBox's Default Machine Folder, either do it in GUI => Prefs - General - Default Machine Folder or manually edit the ~/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml
<SystemProperties defaultMachineFolder="/path/to/VirtualBox/VMs" defaultHardDiskFormat="VDI" VRDEAuthLibrary="VBoxAuth" webServiceAuthLibrary="VBoxAuth" LogHistoryCount="3"/>
you can use the command :
VBoxManage setproperty machinefolder
here the doc for more information : https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-setproperty
You have to change your ~/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml defaultMachineFolder "SystemProperty"(see other answer). As the name already suggests this seems to be a system property / environment variable.
If you then run vagrant from an already running windows console the old value is used and even your edited VirtualBox.xml is overwritten!
So make sure to close and open a new CMD-Window. after the change.