Jayson Vaughn wrote: > I'm confused. As long as ~/.ssh is 700 it works for me. > On Jun 19, 2012 8:02 AM, "Neal Becker" <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> It's been true for a long time that fedora sets up home dir as 775. >> But ssh, with default settings, won't allow public keys to work when >> home dir has mode 775. >> >> Not only, but the poor new fedora user, who tries to ssh into his fedora >> box, won't see any message indicating what is wrong. Only if he/she can >> be root and read var/log/secure they may learn the reason. >> >> This is rediculous. I liked the idea of 775 when it was introduced, since >> it >> did solve an annoyance with the old unix groups. But then we should make >> the >> default fedora install work by setting the sshd config to allow it to >> accept >> this setup. >> >> -- >> devel mailing list >> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Are you sure?? ls -ld .ssh drwx------. 2 nbecker nbecker 4096 Jun 15 08:25 .ssh ls -ld ~/ drwxrwxr-x. 67 nbecker nbecker 4096 Jun 19 06:54 /home/nbecker/ Jun 19 09:44:41 nbecker5 sshd[25418]: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /home/nbecker -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel