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Bug 905108 - deployment guide: permission for ~/.ssh/authorized_keys is too permissive
Summary: deployment guide: permission for ~/.ssh/authorized_keys is too permissive
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: doc-Deployment_Guide
Version: 6.4
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jaromir Hradilek
QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-01-28 15:40 UTC by Yaniv Kaul
Modified: 2013-07-04 03:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-02-25 13:16:31 UTC
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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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