Re: Debian's 'group' system

[m* <mark@novare.net>]

Pete Harlan wrote:
> 
> The problem is that "ssh" won't work unless you remove group-write
> permissions from your home directory (and the ~/.ssh directory).
> 
> It's either a misconfiguration with Debian (i.e., files should not be
> group-writable by default) or with the ssh Debian package (i.e., it
> shouldn't mind that a directory/file is group-writable); neither way
> is clearly better than the other, but they should at least agree.
> 


i installed ssh using the tar file distribution and i did not have
any permissions problems, so maybe it is package issue.

m* 


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