On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 02:43:38PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 03:48:49 +0800 > jeremy ardley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2. The known hosts file used is /etc/ssh/known_hosts rather that > > ~/.ssh/known_hosts - which causes a permissions error > > I am not seeing that, for either root or my regular non-root user. > > You indicated you created your ~/.ssh/config as shown in your email. I > would check the configuration files in /etc/ssh.
It would be worth checking the permissions and ownerships. unicorn:~$ namei -l ~/.ssh/config f: /home/greg/.ssh/config drwxr-xr-x root root / drwxr-xr-x root root home drwxr-xr-x greg greg greg drwxr-xr-x greg greg .ssh -rw-r--r-- greg greg config Either that, or something like: unicorn:~$ ls -ld / /home ~ ~/.ssh ~/.ssh/config drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 Jan 24 07:17 // drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Jan 11 2018 /home/ drwxr-xr-x 227 greg greg 53248 Mar 1 15:01 /home/greg/ drwxr-xr-x 3 greg greg 4096 Apr 18 2021 /home/greg/.ssh/ -rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 525 Apr 25 2015 /home/greg/.ssh/config I find the second one more readable, but the first one is definitely easier to type. Either way, make sure the permissions are *correct*, which is to say, there should not be a world-write or group-write bit on any line of the output.
