Re: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:57:22AM -0500, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > > Harig, Mark A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using option 1. My question comes from the fact > that Corinna Vinschen recommended that ~/.ssh be set to 700 > (which is what 'set-keygen' sets it to) and that she had > poi

RE: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-11 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > > >chmod 700 ~ && \ > > ^^^ > > This is your problem. By setting home and .ssh to 700 you > > disallow sshd to > > stat() ~/.ssh. Cygwin has two chances to retrieve > > information about a file > > or directory, by either call

RE: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-11 Thread Harig, Mark A.
> > Harig, Mark A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK. So, it appears that Cygwin users > > of openssh have one of two options: > > > > 1. chmod 700 ~ > >chgrp 18 ~/.ssh > >chmod 750 ~/.ssh > > > > or > > > > 2. chmod 755 ~ > >chmod 700 ~/.ssh > > > > Do you have a recommendation on wh

Re: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Harig, Mark A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. So, it appears that Cygwin users > of openssh have one of two options: > > 1. chmod 700 ~ >chgrp 18 ~/.ssh >chmod 750 ~/.ssh > > or > > 2. chmod 755 ~ >chmod 700 ~/.ssh > > Do you have a recommendation on which of > these two options is m

RE: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-11 Thread Harig, Mark A.
> >chmod 700 ~ && \ > ^^^ > This is your problem. By setting home and .ssh to 700 you > disallow sshd to > stat() ~/.ssh. Cygwin has two chances to retrieve > information about a file > or directory, by either calling FindFileFirst() or by trying > to open the > file a

Re: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:37:11AM -0500, Harig, Mark A. wrote: >chmod 700 ~ && \ ^^^ This is your problem. By setting home and .ssh to 700 you disallow sshd to stat() ~/.ssh. Cygwin has two chances to retrieve information about a file or directory, by either calling Find

Re: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Harig, Mark A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:54:48PM -0500, Harig, Mark A. wrote: >>> I must be missing a piece of information. Setting the >>> permissions of ~/.ssh to 700 causes ssh to require me >>> to enter a password, that is, the encryption-key processing >>> is f

RE: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-08 Thread Harig, Mark A.
> > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:54:48PM -0500, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > > I must be missing a piece of information. Setting the > > permissions of ~/.ssh to 700 causes ssh to require me > > to enter a password, that is, the encryption-key processing > > is failing. Setting the permissions of ~/.ss

Re: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:54:48PM -0500, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > I must be missing a piece of information. Setting the > permissions of ~/.ssh to 700 causes ssh to require me > to enter a password, that is, the encryption-key processing > is failing. Setting the permissions of ~/.ssh to 750 (if

RE: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-07 Thread Harig, Mark A.
> > First, the directory permission doesn't restrict the access for SYSTEM > due to the standard "Bypass traverse checking" setting on NT. > So setting > the .ssh permissions to 0700 is perfectly fine. > I must be missing a piece of information. Setting the permissions of ~/.ssh to 700 causes

Re: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:51:16AM -0500, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > Thank you for the clarification! > > This presents an interesting situation. > Users who run 'ssh-keygen' (either directly, > or indirectly using 'ssh-host-config'), > find that they are not able to run ssh > because of the permissi

RE: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-07 Thread Harig, Mark A.
Thank you for the clarification! This presents an interesting situation. Users who run 'ssh-keygen' (either directly, or indirectly using 'ssh-host-config'), find that they are not able to run ssh because of the permissions of ~/.ssh/ (and, later, ~/.ssh/authorized_keys*), even though their permis

Re: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:19:40PM -0500, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > > > > chmod 755 $HOME/.ssh > > chmod 644 $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys* > > > > I had $HOME set to 700 and authorized_keys* to 600 before and that > > somehow broke RSA authentication - it is odd that stricter permissions > > would ca

RE: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-06 Thread Harig, Mark A.
> > chmod 755 $HOME/.ssh > chmod 644 $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys* > > I had $HOME set to 700 and authorized_keys* to 600 before and that > somehow broke RSA authentication - it is odd that stricter permissions > would cause that. I suppose this is because the SYSTEM or > sshd user need > to read

RE: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-06 Thread Antonio Bemfica
one of these). > > $ chmod 600 identity (or id_rsa or id_dsa, etc.) > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Antonio Bemfica [mailto:antonio@;axolotl.ic.gc.ca] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 5:32 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject:

RE: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-05 Thread Harig, Mark A.
ca] > Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 5:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken? > > > Hello > > Could someone clarify whether RSA authentication is still not possible > when running SSH as the SYSTEM user? I have Cygwin

RE: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-05 Thread Harig, Mark A.
-Original Message- > From: Antonio Bemfica [mailto:antonio@;axolotl.ic.gc.ca] > Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 5:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken? > > > Hello > > Could someone clarify whether RSA authentication i

Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

2002-11-05 Thread Antonio Bemfica
Hello Could someone clarify whether RSA authentication is still not possible when running SSH as the SYSTEM user? I have Cygwin 1.3.14-1 and OpenSSH 3.4p1-5 and can only login via password authentication (I am familiar with the process to effect RSA authentication under Unix). I have also tightene