As far as I'm aware, none of the developers have anything to do with the wiki page. The man pages should describe the correct behaviour and the source should implement it :) On Wed, 18 Nov 2015, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 15 November 2015 at 09:55, Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Working with apache-sshd I found that it forces ~/.ssh/config to be > > owned by user without group/others permissions. It failed for me > > within my valid openssh environment. > > > > Within sources (readconf.c::read_config_file), I found that openssh > > only enforces ownership by user and not group/others write. > > > > When I opened an issue, I was referred to this[1] wiki page (not sure > > who maintain it) claiming that: > > """ > > This file must not be accessible to other users in any way. Set strict > > permissions: read/write for the user, and not accessible by others. It > > may group-writable if and only if that user is the only member of the > > group in question. > > """ > > > > Personally, I prefer the sources as a reference, but as this wiki page > > is source for information for some, and find no reason why this file > > is sensitive for read. > > > > I would like to know what is the expected behaviour. > > Hi! > Anyone knows what is the expected behaviour? > Thanks! > > > > > Regards, > > Alon Bar-Lev. > > > > [1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Client_Configuration_Files#.7E.2F.ssh.2Fconfig > _______________________________________________ > openssh-unix-dev mailing list > openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev > _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev