2009/2/9 Paul Stimpson <p...@stimpsonfamily.co.uk>: > Hi, > > Thanks. That was it. I'd not put the key in authorized_keys properly and, > when I did, sshd was refusing to open it because the permissions on the > users's home were too lax (it was group writable). > I've been bitten by that one before as well. Trouble is, sshd is pretty reticent about the issue so it can be quite hard to determine just what the problem is.
I probably should not say this but I have sometimes been (too?) relaxed about group permissions on a box , since usually I am the only user. In fact I wonder if the 'user/group/world' permission model that has been there since the start of the epoch is actually a bit anachronistic. These days I can believe that there are assorted daemons who'd each like a slice of some hardware resource, and so some sharing/locking structure is appropriate, but how many PC's have multiple different human users with conflicting, overlapping access rights such that I and my alter ego can share some things, keep some things to ourselves, but hide others from other alter egos? -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
