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assistant: Ensure that .ssh/config and .ssh/authorized_keys are not group or world writable when writing to those files, as that can make ssh refuse to use them, if it allows another user to write to them.

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Joey Hess 2014-01-03 17:44:12 -04:00
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I have no daemon.log, and the console log isn't particularly detailed today; it had just created an ssh key and shown it's fingerprint.
> Ok, I guess this is ssh refusing to use a file that has a group
> write bit set (when the owner is not the only member of its group),
> or perhaps that has the world write bit set.
>
> I have made the assistant unset those modes when creating and modifying
> ssh config files. Hopefully that is enough for Windows too.. I can't
> really test it there, but am calling this provisionally [[done]].
> --[[Joey]]