Source: openssh Source-Version: 1:5.5p1-4 On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 02:19:05AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > I ran into the same problem when trying to use backup-manager with ssh > uploads. I created a user "backup-manager" on the system I want to > upload the backups to, and since I already had to give that user > permission to /var/archives, I made /var/archives its home directory. > However, backup-manager defaults to 0660 permissions on /var/archives, > making ssh refuse to use /var/archives/.ssh/authorized_keys . > > It would require a bit more work, but I think the *right* solution > here would involve asking if the group which has write permission to > the directory contains any users other than the SSH target user.
I just came across this when doing a pass over old bug reports. Indeed, that's the right answer, and I implemented it in openssh 1:5.5p1-4 in response to #581919 (on top of an earlier fix to #314347). That fixed this bug too. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [[email protected]]
