Fixing bad owner or permissions on SSH config file

Recently I was trying to connect to an ssh server and received the following error:

Bad owner or permissions on ~/.ssh/config

Navigating to the folder ~/.ssh/ and checking the permissions of the file (ls -la config) shows the following:

$ ls -la config
-rw-rw-rw- 1 1000 1000 1390 Jul 31 22:08 config

The issue is either bad owner or bad permissions.

Bad permission

In our case above we have the wrong permissions, this can be fixed by running the following command:

chmod 644 config

Checking the permissions again gives us the following result:

$ ls -la config
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 1390 Jul 31 22:08 config

Bad owner

In our case above also we have a bad owner, this can be fixed by running the following command:

chown root:root config

Checking the permissions again gives us the following result:

$ ls -la config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1390 Jul 31 22:08 config

Note: I have set the permission to the user root above, change username as required.