[NBLUG/talk] SSH not letting me login
Dave Sisley
dsisley at arczip.com
Wed Nov 3 16:27:47 PST 2004
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 01:53:20PM -0800, Augie Schwer wrote:
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> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 06:29:41 -0800, Dave Sisley <dsisley at arczip.com> wrote:
> > I invite any TRUE experts out there to explain why the permissions need
> > to be set this way. Why should ssh care who can write to my home partition?
> > I'd understand if ssh was worried about protecting the .ssh subdirectory
> > inside my homedir. Shouldn't ssh mind it's own business?
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> Dave,
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> Well you would not want someone coming by and :
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> mv -f ssh-trojan .ssh
>
> now would you? :)
>
> Augie.
>
Heck, no! But I can see that's why ssh would care about the .ssh
directory, but it doesn't explain why ssh should enforce certain
conditions on my home directory.
I think Eric's post explains it pretty well (I think. See further
down in the thread).
-dave.
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Dave Sisley
dsisley at arczip.com
roth-sisley.net
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