On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 01:32:02AM +0200, Chris Alatakis wrote: > OpenBSD 3.7 GENERIC#0 i386 > OpenSSH_4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7d > > Doing public authentication for a user with example home directory: > /var/www/home/myhomedir > > if there is no public read permissions for home directory > example home is set 0751 rwxrwx--x or even 1711 or 1751 the daemon fails > reading the file in ~/.ssh/authorized__keys even if the dir .ssh is > chmod 755 and the file has world read permissions. >
$ pwd /var/www/users/jonathan $ ls -l .. total 4 drwx------ 5 jonathan jonathan 512 Apr 1 08:04 jonathan $ ls -l .ssh/authorized_keys -rw------- 1 jonathan jonathan 407 Mar 20 16:11 .ssh/authorized_keys $ > The public authentication fails with the error permission denied to read > the above file in /var/log/authlog and ssh requests a password. > > Can u please tell me why Openssh needs read permissions to home + home > dir other than x to read a specified world readable file? > > Any workaround or an answer to this? > > -Chris > -- | /"\ ASCII Ribbon | Jonathan Glaschke - Lorenz-Goertz-Stra_e 71, | \ / Campaign Against | 41238 Moenchengladbach, Germany; | X HTML In Mail | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / \ And News | http://jonathan-glaschke.de/ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
