Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:53:26 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken? Message-ID: <20021111175326.Y10395@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:57:22AM -0500, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > > Harig, Mark A. 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 > pointed to my 'chmod 700 ~' as the reason that openssh would > not work if I set ~/.ssh to 700. > > Is there a consensus about what to recommend to Cygwin users, It's a matter of taste. Personally I let it 755 on ~ and 700 on ~/.ssh. As long as sshd works, it's fine. No worries. > or does openssh work for some people with both ~ and ~/.ssh > set to 700? It can't, except there is that additional ACE for SYSTEM in the ~/.ssh ACL. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/