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Re: Determining key permission bits



On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> wrote:
> On 2013-12-20, at 12:13 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>
>> Is there any easy way to tell which permission bits a key file has?
>
> Perhaps I’ve misunderstood your question, but
>
>  ls -l path/to/keyfile

Whoops -- I didn't realize my question was ambiguous like that.  I'm
asking about the read/write/delete/nuke bits.

FWIW, ls -l does give some hint -- keys with fewer permissions seem to
be smaller.

Also, it would be nice if there was a way to revoke or rotate the delete key.

--Andy