SSH key permissions issue

wsduvall · 03-28-2009, 09:51 AM

Hey guys. I'm trying to set up SSH keys for a user whos home folder has the following permissions:

Code:

[wsduvall@Aten home]$ ls -la
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 13 root     root   149 2009-03-06 08:57 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root     root  4096 2009-01-20 21:26 ..
drwxrwxrwx 13 house    users 4096 2009-03-28 10:22 house

The user house has fully open permissions, so that any user may put files there or access them fully. I use it for sharing files between my roommates et cetera.

After my auth.log file was filled willed login attempts from China, I decided to allow keys only. The only problem is, ssh doesn't like the fact that the home folder is accessible by anybody. Anybody know a way to allow key login on this user?

anomie · 03-28-2009, 10:27 AM

# chmod go-w /home/house

... or turn off StrictModes. I highly recommend the first method, and rethinking how you share files.

jschiwal · 04-04-2009, 07:05 AM

Use a separate directory outside your home directory for sharing files. You can have a symbolic link to it if you want inside your home directory. Then you don't need to change any scripts that use this directory location.

wsduvall · 04-04-2009, 10:30 AM

Good solution, thanks!