Re: Debian's 'group' system

[Petr Barta <orinc@czech.net>]

> > 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.
> 

I've installed the .deb package and there are no problems. I'm using
ssh_1.2.17-3.deb


					Petr Barta