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Re: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:53:26 +0100
- Subject: Re: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?
- References: <BADF3C947A1BD54FBA75C70C241B0B9E90B9D0@ex02.idirect.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:57:22AM -0500, Harig, Mark A. wrote:
> > Harig, Mark A. <maharig@idirect.net> wrote:
> I have been using option 1. My question comes from the fact
> that Corinna Vinschen recommended that ~/.ssh be set to 700
> (which is what 'set-keygen' sets it to) and that she had
> pointed to my 'chmod 700 ~' as the reason that openssh would
> not work if I set ~/.ssh to 700.
>
> Is there a consensus about what to recommend to Cygwin users,
It's a matter of taste. Personally I let it 755 on ~ and 700
on ~/.ssh. As long as sshd works, it's fine. No worries.
> or does openssh work for some people with both ~ and ~/.ssh
> set to 700?
It can't, except there is that additional ACE for SYSTEM in the
~/.ssh ACL.
Corinna
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