VRF private key has "other" file permissions (Solution)

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I’m not sure if this is the correct place to put this as I’m not looking for support but just rather wanted to post a fix to an issue I had come across, I haven’t seen anyone post about it so I thought I would post this in case someone else comes across this issue.

After updating cardano-node and attempting to start it, I received this error

VRF private key file /keylocation/vrf.skey has “other” file permissions. Please remove all “other” file permissions.

The fix:

chmod og-rwx vrf.skey

The solution I found was located here

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chmod 400 vrf.skey

will work too

If you’re using kubernetes, you will have to mount file by file with subPath in the volumounts section and set the default mask, eg.:

        - name: my-volume
          secret:
            secretName: cardano-secrets
            defaultMode: 0400 # <--

and then in the volumount section:

            - name: my-volume
              mountPath: /path/to/secret/vrf.skey
              subPath: vrf.skey
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cheers for that. i want liveview back . this is so …messy

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Great, thank you KelownaStaking worked a treat!

I also used this:

chmod gou-rwx vrf.skey
chmod u+r vrf.skey

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Thank you!

This work for me. chmod og-rwx vrf.skey

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