Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

[Harig, Mark A.]

> 
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:54:48PM -0500, Harig, Mark A. wrote:
> > I must be missing a piece of information.  Setting the
> > permissions of ~/.ssh to 700 causes ssh to require me
> > to enter a password, that is, the encryption-key processing
> > is failing.  Setting the permissions of ~/.ssh to 750 (if
> > the group setting is SYSTEM) or to 755 (if the group setting
> > is not SYSTEM) allows ssh to access the encryption-key files.
> 
> Are you actually sure?  The permissions of directories don't influence
> the permissions to the underlying files and directories unless an
> administrator changes the setting of the above "Bypass 
> traverse checking"
> user right.  Just to be sure I did check that yesterday on my 
> system so
> I'm pretty confident.
> 
> "Bypass traverse checking" is on by default for Everyone.  This is
> annoyingly different from UNIX file systems from my point of view
> but AFAIK professional Windows admins like it.  And since it's the
> default and most users don't know what it's doing anyway, I don't
> change it on my test system, too.
> 

Hmm.  I'm sorry to be so dense, but:

  1) I had never heard of "Bypass traverse checking" so I'm
     pretty sure that I haven't changed it.

  2) Am I sure that I cannot use ~/.ssh if the mode is set to 700?
     Changing the permissions for ~/.ssh to 750 or 755 has been 
     the solution for me and for a number of other users that
     I've suggested it to.  Are we all doing something wrong? (a
     possibility, of course)

     The following script sets everything up for me (of course,
     I respond to the ssh-keygen prompts):

       #!/bin/bash
       umask 0022 && \
       chmod 700 ~ && \
       mv ~/.ssh  ~/save.ssh && \
       ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "some useful comment" -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa && \
       cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2

     This causes ssh-keygen to create ~/.ssh with whatever permissions
     it thinks are correct (i.e., 700).  (I'm running sshd on Win2K
using
     NTFS, Cygwin DLL 1.3.15, CYGWIN=ntsec, StrictMode=yes,  
     UsePrivilegeSeparation=yes)  After this script completes, I attempt
     to connect to my ssh server from the machine that is running the
server.
     I can connect, but only if I provide my password.  Conversely, if
     I set the permissions of ~/.ssh to 755, then I can connect without
     providing my password.

     Am I doing something wrong, or assuming something that is false?

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