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Bug#581919: openssh-server: "bad ownership or modes for file $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys" check too aggressive



On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 19:55 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> It's not completely dropping security.  If the user is the only member
> of a group, then the group-writability confers no additional permissions
> and it's OK to allow it.
Well I've read the code for the ~/.ssh/config changes,... I mean it
seems ok at least at a first glance,... but I think it's more or less
only a heuristic and I guess upstream has it's reasons to not merge
it...

And what happens if group memberships changes just during that code
part?


Cheers,
Chris.

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