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SSH does not allow the use of a key with group readable permissions

I have a development git server that deploys to a live server when the live branch is pushed to. Every user has their own login and therefore the post-receive hook which does the live deployment is ...
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Does openssl always encrypt the private key?

When using openssl 0.9.8 to create a new self-signed cert+key, there is a -nodes parameter that can be used to tell openssl to not encrypt the private key it creates. For example: openssl req -x509 ...
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How to use the correct SSH private key?

I have a private key inside /home/myuser/.ssh/privateKey I have a problem connecting to the ssh server, because i always get: Permission denied (publickey). I tried to debug the problem and i find ...
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How does changing a GPG encryption key's passphrase work?

I know that I can do (edit: fixed this; I'm interested in gpg NOT openssh) gpg --edit-key ...to change my passphrase for my key, but I'm not sure what this means. If I'm encrypting data on box A ...
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ssh with key login failed from Mac OSX to CentOS 5 remote server

I'm trying to setup passwordless login for from my mac to my remote server running CentOS with public key authentication for "user1". I used $ ssh-keygen -t rsa to setup a public key on my mac and ...
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OpenVPN easy-rsa build-key automation?

I have a lot of keys to generate for my clients VPN server. Whenever I use easy-rsa to generate the keys like this: ./build-key client1 There is some output with a series of questions. The ...