On 23 jun 2009, at 16:06, Daniel Underwood <[email protected]> wrote:

Looking at my ~/.ssh directory, I see the following permissions:

-rw-r--r--

Which I understand to be equivalent to 644.

I read here <http://sial.org/howto/openssh/publickey-auth/> that
~/.ssh ought to have permissions 700.

Which is preferable, and why?
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700, you private key(s) go in there.

Peter
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