Bug#314649: openssh-client: Bad owner or permissions on ~/.ssh/config
Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:4.1p1-3
Severity: important
Now that openssh has emerged from experimental, it will no longer let me
log out:
[fbriere] toroia:~ $ ssh foo.bar
Bad owner or permissions on /home/fbriere/.ssh/config
I assume this is an attempt to make sure ~/.ssh/config is 0600 or
something. That's probably a noble cause, but I have issues with this:
* My home dir is 0700, so ~/.ssh/config's mode doesn't matter to me
* There's nothing of value to be found in that file anyway (for me)
* There's no mention of this behavior in the documentation
* No information is provided on what *good* owner or permissions are
* It used to work until now
The last point is why I've filed this as important; packages should not
unexpectedly stop working, even if it's For the User's Own Good[tm].
I'd like to propose this error message being downgraded to a warning.
Failing that, there should be a warning announcement in NEWS.Debian
about this new behavior.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-2
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages openssh-client depends on:
ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.51 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.13.9 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libedit2 2.9.cvs.20050518-2 BSD editline and history libraries
ii libncurses5 5.4-6 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7g-1 SSL shared libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
openssh-client recommends no packages.
Versions of packages openssh-client is related to:
ii reportbug 3.13 reports bugs in the Debian distrib
pn totem-gstreamer <none> (no description available)
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