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"H. S." wrote:

> As you mention, there are so many sites that tell you to do chmod
> system:system that it made wonder what was the real deal behind this.

In fact it is required that certain files and directories be owned by
the user that runs sshd (which in most cases is SYSTEM.)  But
ssh-host-config does all this for you, so the need to do it by hand
should never occur.

Brian

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