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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> | 2016-08-07 12:18:43 +0100 |
| commit | 563974a78e937c4844e1198b5f6d79b8b2b5c600 (patch) | |
| tree | ab2b821031f9b3d4dac7123b677dd6e8a93ac4d3 /ssh_config.5 | |
| parent | 173d65e72989cba82502604da3f1336766c0cf0f (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 efc265ab7..5dd26bcaa 100644 --- a/ssh_config.5 +++ b/ssh_config.5 | |||
| @@ -1903,6 +1903,8 @@ The format of this file is described above. | |||
| 1903 | This file is used by the SSH client. | 1903 | This file is used by the SSH client. |
| 1904 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: | 1904 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: |
| 1905 | read/write for the user, and not accessible by others. | 1905 | read/write for the user, and not accessible by others. |
| 1906 | It may be group-writable provided that the group in question contains only | ||
| 1907 | the user. | ||
| 1906 | .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config | 1908 | .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config |
| 1907 | Systemwide configuration file. | 1909 | Systemwide configuration file. |
| 1908 | This file provides defaults for those | 1910 | This file provides defaults for those |