Re: [Nolug] Getting Public Key Authentication to work with OpenSSH

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:14:20 -0600,
mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) wrote:

> Since ~/.ssh/authorized_keys is a copy of the public keys, it doesn't
> matter who sees it and ssh knows this. Permissions of 644 on this
> file work. Anything thing more (e.g. group-writable) won't, though.

Hmm, I misunderstood it:-<
I just checked ssh(1) man page and it says:

>> $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys

>> This file is not highly sensitive, but the
>> recommended permissions are read/write for
>> the user, and not accessible by others.

Thanks, Mark.

-- Yuji Yamano <yyamano@kt.rim.or.jp>
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