Re: [Hampshire] SSH pain

2009/2/9 Paul Stimpson <paul@???>:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks. That was it. I'd not put the key in authorized_keys properly and, when I did, sshd was refusing to open it because the permissions on the users's home were too lax (it was group writable).
>
I've been bitten by that one before as well. Trouble is, sshd is
pretty reticent about the issue so it can be quite hard to determine
just what the problem is.

I probably should not say this but I have sometimes been (too?)
relaxed about group permissions on a box , since usually I am the only
user. In fact I wonder if the 'user/group/world' permission model that
has been there since the start of the epoch is actually a bit
anachronistic. These days I can believe that there are assorted
daemons who'd each like a slice of some hardware resource, and so some
sharing/locking structure is appropriate, but how many PC's have
multiple different human users with conflicting, overlapping access
rights such that I and my alter ego can share some things, keep some
things to ourselves, but hide others from other alter egos?