Bug 77599

Summary:	ssh hangs if home directory is not writeable
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	santini
Component:	openssh	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description santini 2002-11-10 08:51:43 UTC

Description of problem:
Trying to login to a user with a non writeable home directory result in ssh
hanging for indefinite time.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Let foobar a user such that your key is in his authorized_keys
2. chmod a-w /home/foobar
3. ssh -v foobar@localhost
	
Actual Results:  ssh hanging after:

[...]
debug1: channel request 0: shell
debug1: fd 3 setting TCP_NODELAY
debug1: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768

Expected Results:  a normal login, since your key is listed in
~/foobar/.ssh/authorized_keys

Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2005-02-04 10:32:21 UTC

Cannot reproduce on the current Fedora Core.