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