openssh windows bad owner or permissions

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

Solution 1:

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.

Solution 2:

Changing the ssh client from C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\ssh.exe to C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\ssh.exe worked for me.

Solution 3:

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

Solution 4:

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.