Re: ~/.ssh directory permissions

2009-06-24 Thread Brent Bloxam
Chris Rees wrote: Although I think it's not a big deal, as long as your id_?sa has permissions 600 like mine, or even 400. Chris The man page for ssh(1) provides a lot of detail about the sensitivity of the various files related to ssh. To quote it regarding a few of them: ~/.ssh/

~/.ssh directory permissions

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel Underwood
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?

Re: ~/.ssh directory permissions

2009-06-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:06:03AM -0400, Daniel Underwood 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.

Re: ~/.ssh directory permissions

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel Underwood
Thanks. Might as well set to 700 then. ___ 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

Re: ~/.ssh directory permissions

2009-06-23 Thread Peter Boosten
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

Re: ~/.ssh directory permissions

2009-06-23 Thread Chris Rees
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