> Uhm, isn't smail finicky about the permissions on a .forward file? If it
> does not trust the file, it will not obey it.
This reminds me---Debian has adopted this nice system of every user
having his/her own group. (No sarcasm: It's a Good Thing.)
Everything is then group-writable by default,
Pete Harlan wrote:
>
> The problem is that "ssh" won't work unless you remove group-write
> permissions from your home directory (and the ~/.ssh directory).
>
> It's either a misconfiguration with Debian (i.e., files should not be
> group-writable by default) or with the ssh Debian package (i.e.,
Pete Harlan wrote:
>
> This reminds me---Debian has adopted this nice system of every user
> having his/her own group. (No sarcasm: It's a Good Thing.)
> Everything is then group-writable by default, which is probably what
> you want.
Can you enlighten me as to why this should be a Good Thing?
> > The problem is that "ssh" won't work unless you remove group-write
> > permissions from your home directory (and the ~/.ssh directory).
> >
> > It's either a misconfiguration with Debian (i.e., files should not be
> > group-writable by default) or with the ssh Debian package (i.e., it
> > shou
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Pete Harlan wrote:
> >
> > This reminds me---Debian has adopted this nice system of every user
> > having his/her own group. (No sarcasm: It's a Good Thing.)
I agree. It is a good thing. It is a nice system. I saw this for the first
time in RedHat and I liked th
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