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author | Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> | 2014-02-09 16:09:58 +0000 |
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committer | Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> | 2017-01-16 15:02:54 +0000 |
commit | c20ad02ad58a523c6f4974e1ca124e71b7b801b1 (patch) | |
tree | afd7789eacc9df276abe3a1b1a307d2f7cee216f /ssh.1 | |
parent | 71809791262478c78d1db2ca1004604c39db8150 (diff) |
Allow harmless group-writability
Allow secure files (~/.ssh/config, ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, etc.) to be
group-writable, provided that the group in question contains only the file's
owner. Rejected upstream for IMO incorrect reasons (e.g. a misunderstanding
about the contents of gr->gr_mem). Given that per-user groups and umask 002
are the default setup in Debian (for good reasons - this makes operating in
setgid directories with other groups much easier), we need to permit this by
default.
Bug: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=314347
Last-Update: 2013-09-14
Patch-Name: user-group-modes.patch
Diffstat (limited to 'ssh.1')
-rw-r--r-- | ssh.1 | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -1484,6 +1484,8 @@ The file format and configuration options are described in | |||
1484 | .Xr ssh_config 5 . | 1484 | .Xr ssh_config 5 . |
1485 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: | 1485 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: |
1486 | read/write for the user, and not writable by others. | 1486 | read/write for the user, and not writable by others. |
1487 | It may be group-writable provided that the group in question contains only | ||
1488 | the user. | ||
1487 | .Pp | 1489 | .Pp |
1488 | .It Pa ~/.ssh/environment | 1490 | .It Pa ~/.ssh/environment |
1489 | Contains additional definitions for environment variables; see | 1491 | Contains additional definitions for environment variables; see |