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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> | 2015-08-19 17:09:56 +0100 |
commit | 209c51110996719eab04236d72f776eed6bd8226 (patch) | |
tree | a099dc0f9ea7c6740083d222e25be00ca79dea8b /ssh_config.5 | |
parent | 1197fd975ab8fd11b1ac83557ef750129b16c0d8 (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 21d3e9440..1d0c52b0b 100644 --- a/ssh_config.5 +++ b/ssh_config.5 | |||
@@ -1706,6 +1706,8 @@ The format of this file is described above. | |||
1706 | This file is used by the SSH client. | 1706 | This file is used by the SSH client. |
1707 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: | 1707 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: |
1708 | read/write for the user, and not accessible by others. | 1708 | read/write for the user, and not accessible by others. |
1709 | It may be group-writable provided that the group in question contains only | ||
1710 | the user. | ||
1709 | .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config | 1711 | .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config |
1710 | Systemwide configuration file. | 1712 | Systemwide configuration file. |
1711 | This file provides defaults for those | 1713 | This file provides defaults for those |