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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> | 2019-06-05 13:11:52 +0100 |
| commit | e04a43bd5798ba43d910493d179438845e96f631 (patch) | |
| tree | e433ad99222914ffb1e6f666b1bfa3739784e243 /ssh_config.5 | |
| parent | 0646a0cd5ea893cf822113d4f10c501540c18e40 (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: 2019-06-05
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 250c92d04..bd1e9311d 100644 --- a/ssh_config.5 +++ b/ssh_config.5 | |||
| @@ -1885,6 +1885,8 @@ The format of this file is described above. | |||
| 1885 | This file is used by the SSH client. | 1885 | This file is used by the SSH client. |
| 1886 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: | 1886 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: |
| 1887 | read/write for the user, and not writable by others. | 1887 | read/write for the user, and not writable by others. |
| 1888 | It may be group-writable provided that the group in question contains only | ||
| 1889 | the user. | ||
| 1888 | .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config | 1890 | .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config |
| 1889 | Systemwide configuration file. | 1891 | Systemwide configuration file. |
| 1890 | This file provides defaults for those | 1892 | This file provides defaults for those |