On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:03:10PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 08:06:20PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > > > Anything less than 700 breaks RSA authentication for ssh. A point to > > consider though I'll gladly concede that anyone using RSA keys ought > > to know what permissions they want on their home directory and how to > > change them. > > wrong, ssh only cares if the home directory is *WRITABLE* by other > users then the owner, not if its readable. > > my home directory is mode 710 and ssh works fine, on other systems my > home is mode 755 and ssh still works fine (all with RSA auth and > StrictModes yes)
Actually, sshd only cares about ~/.ssh and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and that they're not group or world writable. --Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
