On Jun 19, 2012 8:46 AM, "Neal Becker" <ndbecker2(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Jayson Vaughn wrote:
> I'm confused. As long as ~/.ssh is 700 it works for me.
> On Jun 19, 2012 8:02 AM, "Neal Becker" <ndbecker2(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's been true for a long time that fedora sets up home dir as 775.
>> But ssh, with default settings, won't allow public keys to work when
>> home dir has mode 775.
>>
>> Not only, but the poor new fedora user, who tries to ssh into his
fedora
>> box, won't see any message indicating what is wrong.
Only if he/she
can
>> be root and read var/log/secure they may learn the reason.
>>
>> This is rediculous. I liked the idea of 775 when it was introduced,
since
>> it
>> did solve an annoyance with the old unix groups. But then we should
make
>> the
>> default fedora install work by setting the sshd config to allow it to
>> accept
>> this setup.
>>
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Are you sure??
ls -ld .ssh
drwx------. 2 nbecker nbecker 4096 Jun 15 08:25 .ssh
ls -ld ~/
drwxrwxr-x. 67 nbecker nbecker 4096 Jun 19 06:54 /home/nbecker/
Jun 19 09:44:41 nbecker5 sshd[25418]: Authentication refused: bad
ownership or
modes for directory /home/nbecker
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Well, yes it works for me however my home directories are not created with
775 permissions by default. Everytime I use "useradd" the home directory
is created as 700 - as it should be.
Your home directories are created with permissions 775 by default?