From 563974a78e937c4844e1198b5f6d79b8b2b5c600 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Watson Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 16:09:58 +0000 Subject: 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 --- ssh_config.5 | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'ssh_config.5') 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. This file is used by the SSH client. Because of the potential for abuse, this file must have strict permissions: read/write for the user, and not accessible by others. +It may be group-writable provided that the group in question contains only +the user. .It Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_config Systemwide configuration file. This file provides defaults for those -- cgit v1.2.3