On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 12:54:28PM +0200, Clemens Lang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > On 30. Apr 2025, at 19:54, Peter Pentchev <r...@ringlet.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a chance that there is some kind of mistake in your ~/.ssh/config 
> > file
> > saying something like "IdentityFile /path/to/id_rsa.pub" so that OpenSSH
> > would think that id_rsa.pub is a private keyfile and not a public one?
> 
> Note that this is actually a valid configuration for cases where
> the private key is in an HSM or other security module.

Ah, that actually makes sense, thank you! I don't have much experience with 
HSMs.

> I guess OpenSSH just doesn’t know whether the file is a private or
> public key by the time it checks the permissions, so in this case also
> the public key needs to have limited permissions.

Sounds like a reasonable consequence.

G'luck,
Peter

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