[K12OSN] how to set up passwordless ssh access

Peter Scheie peter at scheie.homedns.org
Sun Jun 17 13:53:59 UTC 2007



Micha Silver wrote:
> Peter Scheie wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> I use 0600 (-r--r--r--) myself. I believe some distro's are stricter 
>>> than others about these permissions. Or maybe it changed with some 
>>> version of OpenSSH.
>>>
> Probably a typo, but note that 0600  is not  -r--r--r--
> As others mentioned, authorized_keys needs to be readable only by it's 
> owner. So 0600  or (-rw-------) would be correct.
> 
Ah yes, a typo indeed.  0600 is the correct setting, which would make it 
  -r--------, which are the desired permissions.

Peter




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