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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> | 2020-02-21 12:06:07 +0000 |
commit | 3309e464e5ae6c940ddd584eed4d2d403f4c168c (patch) | |
tree | cba1516165e10e7095ab30cf8100644059865217 /ssh_config.5 | |
parent | 387c2c1954773733bae9fca21a92db62c31180bd (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: 2019-10-09
Patch-Name: user-group-modes.patch
Diffstat (limited to 'ssh_config.5')
-rw-r--r-- | ssh_config.5 | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ssh_config.5 b/ssh_config.5 index 3079db19b..e61a0fd43 100644 --- a/ssh_config.5 +++ b/ssh_config.5 | |||
@@ -1952,6 +1952,8 @@ The format of this file is described above. | |||
1952 | This file is used by the SSH client. | 1952 | This file is used by the SSH client. |
1953 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: | 1953 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: |
1954 | read/write for the user, and not writable by others. | 1954 | read/write for the user, and not writable by others. |
1955 | It may be group-writable provided that the group in question contains only | ||
1956 | the user. | ||
1955 | .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config | 1957 | .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config |
1956 | Systemwide configuration file. | 1958 | Systemwide configuration file. |
1957 | This file provides defaults for those | 1959 | This file provides defaults for those |