[CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

Brian Mathis brian.mathis at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 20:25:50 UTC 2010


On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:53 PM, JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 15:30 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote
>> >
>> > The permissions on the .ssh directory must also be correct.  Otherwise, yes.
> ---
> chmod 755 ~/.ssh
>
> chmod 644 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
>
> John
>
> drwxr-xr-x  2 ethan ethan    4096 Oct 10 17:16 .ssh
> -rw-r--r--  1 ethan ethan  396 Oct 10 17:16 authorized_keys
>

No, that's the opposite of what you want.  If that works for you then
your sysadmin has disabled StrictModes and it may leave you open to
some security issues.

Directory should be 700.  File should be 600.



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