2009/6/23 Peter Boosten <pe...@boosten.org>: > > > On 23 jun 2009, at 16:06, Daniel Underwood <djuatde...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Looking at my ~/.ssh directory, I see the following permissions: >> >> -rw-r--r-- >> >> Which I understand to be equivalent to 644. >> >> I read here <http://sial.org/howto/openssh/publickey-auth/> that >> ~/.ssh ought to have permissions 700. >> >> Which is preferable, and why? >> __ > > 700, you private key(s) go in there. >
Interesting, I never noticed the 700 permissions on .ssh... [ch...@amnesiac]~% ls -ld .ssh drwx------ 2 chris chris 512 Nov 22 2008 .ssh/ [ch...@amnesiac]~% ls -l .ssh total 18 -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 3281 Jan 8 21:21 authorized_keys -rw------- 1 chris chris 1675 Oct 1 2008 id_rsa -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 409 Oct 1 2008 id_rsa.pub -rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 8379 Jun 11 22:01 known_hosts [ch...@amnesiac]~% Although I think it's not a big deal, as long as your id_?sa has permissions 600 like mine, or even 400. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
