How to load SSH Keys from FAT32 / Bypass permission requirement in SSH

Mounted FAT devices in UNIX System does not support permissions, hence SSH gives this warning:

$ ssh-add id_rsa
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Permissions 0777 for 'id_rsa' are too open.
It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
This private key will be ignored.

First you should take a second to think about the reason for this warning, once you did that you can bypass it like this:

$ cat id_rsa | ssh-add -
Identity added: (stdin) ((stdin))

Have fun kids! 😉

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