.ssh/id_rsa failed: permission denied

Question

I have been scanning the web/SO and read several permission denieds plea's for help I just cant find one that solves my issue in a way i understand.

I'm following these instructions (Getting Started with Python on Heroku/Cedar). Everything went alright until:

drewverlee@ubuntu:~/helloflask$ source venv/bin/activate (venv)drewverlee@ubuntu:~/helloflask$ git push heroku master  The authenticity of host 'heroku.com (50.19.85.132)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is ##:##:##:##:##:##:##:##:##:##:##:## (I replaced with #) Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/home/drewverlee/.ssh/known_hosts). Permission denied (publickey). fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly 

(Not sure of security so i replaced the key with (#))

I think it might be because of

drwx------  2 root       root        1024 2012-03-08 21:26 .ssh 

because

drewverlee@ubuntu:~$ ssh-keygen Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/home/drewverlee/.ssh/id_rsa):  Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):  Enter same passphrase again:  open /home/drewverlee/.ssh/id_rsa failed: Permission denied. Saving the key failed: /home/drewverlee/.ssh/id_rsa. 

As someone with little experience in these matters i'm not sure how to undo what i have done safely as i know i'm meddling with powerful tools. Any advice on whats going on here? Let me know if i need to include more information to solve the problem.

Answer 1

You should own the permissions to the .ssh dir in your own directory, but in your case, it's owned by root. Try

cd ~ sudo chown drewverlee .ssh 

and then retry creating keys and connecting.