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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> | 2020-10-18 12:07:21 +0100 |
commit | d08cd2b0cfbedf3ccd2ec3adaef850b8d9a87e85 (patch) | |
tree | 482ed3db805204bb6bc2e7d528d1b5669f6abc72 /ssh_config.5 | |
parent | 33a5f7aadea15899586710c615408045eaaecebd (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: 2019-10-09
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 3ceb800ba..190e1d927 100644 --- a/ssh_config.5 +++ b/ssh_config.5 | |||
@@ -2010,6 +2010,8 @@ The format of this file is described above. | |||
2010 | This file is used by the SSH client. | 2010 | This file is used by the SSH client. |
2011 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: | 2011 | Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: |
2012 | read/write for the user, and not writable by others. | 2012 | read/write for the user, and not writable by others. |
2013 | It may be group-writable provided that the group in question contains only | ||
2014 | the user. | ||
2013 | .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config | 2015 | .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config |
2014 | Systemwide configuration file. | 2016 | Systemwide configuration file. |
2015 | This file provides defaults for those | 2017 | This file provides defaults for those |