[Cialug] SSH Host Key Permissions

Nicolai nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org
Fri Mar 22 20:06:59 UTC 2019


On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 10:32:12AM -0400, Todd Walton wrote:

> Found this:
> https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2078
> 
> That's the OpenSSH bug tracker, where a committer modifies
> ssh_config(5) like this:
> 
> ==========================================
> -read/write for the user, and not accessible by others.
> +read/write for the user, and not writable by others.
> 
> committed and will be in openssh-6.3

Maybe I misunderstand, but OpenSSH 6.3 was released on September 13,
2013.  So I don't think the above is relevant to your situation.

What version of OpenSSH are you using?  OpenBSD 6.4 has:

$ ssh -V
OpenSSH_7.9, LibreSSL 2.8.2

Nicolai


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