Bug 905108

Summary: deployment guide: permission for ~/.ssh/authorized_keys is too permissive
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Yaniv Kaul <ykaul>
Component: doc-Deployment_GuideAssignee: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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Version: 6.4CC: jkt
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Description Yaniv Kaul 2013-01-28 15:40:19 UTC 
Description of problem:
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/s2-ssh-configuration-keypairs.html

mentions:
chmod 644 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

That's not very secure, and http://www.openssh.org/faq.html#3.14 recommends otherwise.
For me, on 6.3.z, the following works nicely:
[root@rhevm-3 ~]# ls -l ~/.ssh/authorized_keys 
-rw-------. 1 root root 408 2013-01-28 17:26 /root/.ssh/authorized_keys



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