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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> | 2018-04-03 08:21:37 +0100 |
commit | 9e45701c5d6105444cc2f4f5d6c44b0f69969479 (patch) | |
tree | 9df3ccd6a8eee5c69d410a69d06be927bc7284fd /ssh.1 | |
parent | 027619c6b05713e3f08a51e7232389383900e5d8 (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: 2017-10-04
Patch-Name: user-group-modes.patch
Diffstat (limited to 'ssh.1')
-rw-r--r-- | ssh.1 | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -1471,6 +1471,8 @@ The file format and configuration options are described in | |||
1471 | .Xr ssh_config 5 . | 1471 | .Xr ssh_config 5 . |
1472 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: | 1472 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: |
1473 | read/write for the user, and not writable by others. | 1473 | read/write for the user, and not writable by others. |
1474 | It may be group-writable provided that the group in question contains only | ||
1475 | the user. | ||
1474 | .Pp | 1476 | .Pp |
1475 | .It Pa ~/.ssh/environment | 1477 | .It Pa ~/.ssh/environment |
1476 | Contains additional definitions for environment variables; see | 1478 | Contains additional definitions for environment variables; see |