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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> | 2015-11-29 17:36:19 +0000 |
| commit | 68538f6919550b36ae9d812a1c2c52dbe9354608 (patch) | |
| tree | 9abe8841fe763c02f49001f47ce9f0a122ba11c5 /ssh_config.5 | |
| parent | 4ba040812693f5823bc8643cfb82a581a5e8e5db (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 4e341155a..37f3ab869 100644 --- a/ssh_config.5 +++ b/ssh_config.5 | |||
| @@ -1760,6 +1760,8 @@ The format of this file is described above. | |||
| 1760 | This file is used by the SSH client. | 1760 | This file is used by the SSH client. |
| 1761 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: | 1761 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: |
| 1762 | read/write for the user, and not accessible by others. | 1762 | read/write for the user, and not accessible by others. |
| 1763 | It may be group-writable provided that the group in question contains only | ||
| 1764 | the user. | ||
| 1763 | .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config | 1765 | .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config |
| 1764 | Systemwide configuration file. | 1766 | Systemwide configuration file. |
| 1765 | This file provides defaults for those | 1767 | This file provides defaults for those |