Hello, Here is a test case to show the trouble I got: touch test chmod 000 test Now compare ssh -i test localhost and ssh -t -i test localhost I have checked behavior in both Debian Wheezy version: OpenSSH_6.0p1 Debian-4+deb7u1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013 and Ubuntu LTS 14.04 version 6.6p1-2ubuntu1 Thanks to strace, I guess the "not accessible" warning is only produced when "stat" syscall is not possible on identity file. In my test case, "stat" returns 0 as the file exists and is accessible. But permission bits prevent me to read it so the "open" call fails. So when using an explicit identity file in options, I would expect ssh command outputs to stderr the "could not open key file '/path/to/my/id_dsa': Permission denied" message. Thank you for your attention Best regards -- Yves Martin _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
