On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 3:24 AM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 8/23/24 3:17 PM, Dave Close wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > >> At this point, I would visit each machine and: > >> > >> mkdir -p ~/.ssh > >> chown -R dclose:dclose ~/.ssh > >> chmod -R o-rwx ~/.ssh > > > > That would be guaranteed to cause failure. For example, my private keys > > cannot have 0777 permissions! > > I think you're misinterpreting that command. It *removes* all "other" > permissions from the files. I'm not sure what the point of it is, but > it won't harm anything. SSH server will refuse a connection from the user if the permissions on the .ssh/ directory, keys or authorized_keys are too loose. See, for example, <https://stackoverflow.com/q/67000681>. Jeff -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
