RE: IMPORTANT: The importance of chmods

[Bulgrien, Kevin]

> -----Original Message-----
> I had no idea that plain-jane chmods were so gosh darn important for
> preparing CVS over SSH. See my post here where I start talking about
> chmods and then see the post called "OH MY GOD! (What did I miss?) "
> under the group comp.security.ssh
> for the rest of the story. I blew way too, too many hours on this. I
> still find it hard to accept that chmod 777 over 755 wade things worse
> not better.
> 
> Shane

The chmod story has NOTHING to do with CVS.  It has EVERYTHING to do with
SSH.
You'd have had the same issue no matter what application you were trying to
use over SSH if you had 777 on the .ssh directory.  If you develop a habit
of
looking in your system log, you might save the hours next time.  SSH tells
you (in the log) when it won't do something because the directory
permissions
are wrong.  It is not hard to accept.  Nobody except you should be able to
do
squat in .ssh or system security is completely out the window.  SSH knows
that
and refuses to operate in order to protect you from yourself.

--- 
Kevin R. Bulgrien
Design and Development Engineer
VertexRSI


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