Re: ~/.ssh directory permissions

2009-06-24 Thread Brent Bloxam
Chris Rees wrote: Although I think it's not a big deal, as long as your id_?sa has permissions 600 like mine, or even 400. Chris The man page for ssh(1) provides a lot of detail about the sensitivity of the various files related to ssh. To quote it regarding a few of them: ~/.ssh/

Re: ~/.ssh directory permissions

2009-06-23 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/23 Peter Boosten : > > > On 23 jun 2009, at 16:06, Daniel Underwood 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 that >> ~/.ss

Re: ~/.ssh directory permissions

2009-06-23 Thread Peter Boosten
On 23 jun 2009, at 16:06, Daniel Underwood 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 that ~/.ssh ought to have permissions 700. Which is prefera

Re: ~/.ssh directory permissions

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel Underwood
Thanks. Might as well set to 700 then. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: ~/.ssh directory permissions

2009-06-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:06:03AM -0400, Daniel Underwood 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 that > ~/.ssh ought to have permiss

~/.ssh directory permissions

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel Underwood
Looking at my ~/.ssh directory, I see the following permissions: -rw-r--r-- Which I understand to be equivalent to 644. I read here that ~/.ssh ought to have permissions 700. Which is preferable, and why? __