The file has bad permissions. If you get this error try: chmod 600 * inside the .ssh folder. according to the manual of openssh ~/.ssh/config This is the per-user configuration file. This file is used by the SSH client.Because of the potential for
The ssh with RHEL 4 is a lot more anal about security checking. In my case, it was the fact that $HOME/.ssh/config was group-writable which was causing it to barf. To fix: $ cd ~/.ssh $ chmod 600 * Note that this error message is kind of stupid, sinc