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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> | 2014-10-07 14:27:20 +0100 |
commit | 28ea747089f695e58a476a2849133402d4f86b92 (patch) | |
tree | fe010fa255dcd25e221fe76ef552aad3eb5da760 /ssh_config.5 | |
parent | f51fe0c55e54c12db952624e980d18f39c41e581 (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_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 ea92ea80d..d68b45a79 100644 --- a/ssh_config.5 +++ b/ssh_config.5 | |||
@@ -1587,6 +1587,8 @@ The format of this file is described above. | |||
1587 | This file is used by the SSH client. | 1587 | This file is used by the SSH client. |
1588 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: | 1588 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: |
1589 | read/write for the user, and not accessible by others. | 1589 | read/write for the user, and not accessible by others. |
1590 | It may be group-writable provided that the group in question contains only | ||
1591 | the user. | ||
1590 | .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config | 1592 | .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config |
1591 | Systemwide configuration file. | 1593 | Systemwide configuration file. |
1592 | This file provides defaults for those | 1594 | This file provides defaults for those |