diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 972fd6f..73f6177 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: set up 'ssh localhost'
         run: |
           .github/workflows/setup-ssh-localhost.sh
-          ssh localhost
+          ssh -v localhost
       - name: Install dependencies (including dev dependencies at frozen version)
         # I'm using pip install -e to make sure that the coverage properly traces the runs
         # also of the concurrent tests (maybe we can achieve this differently)
diff --git a/.github/workflows/setup-ssh-localhost.sh b/.github/workflows/setup-ssh-localhost.sh
index df70959..ab3347a 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/setup-ssh-localhost.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/setup-ssh-localhost.sh
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@ set -ev
 ssh-keygen -q -t rsa -b 4096 -N "" -f "${HOME}/.ssh/id_rsa"
 ssh-keygen -y -f "${HOME}/.ssh/id_rsa" >> "${HOME}/.ssh/authorized_keys"
 ssh-keyscan -H localhost >> "${HOME}/.ssh/known_hosts"
+
+chmod 700 "${HOME}/.ssh"
+chmod 600 "${HOME}/.ssh"/*