Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:37:11AM -0500, Harig, Mark A. wrote:
>        chmod 700 ~ && \
         ^^^^^^^^^^^
This is your problem.  By setting home and .ssh to 700 you disallow sshd to
stat() ~/.ssh.  Cygwin has two chances to retrieve information about a file
or directory, by either calling FindFileFirst() or by trying to open the
file and calling various Win32 access functions.

FindFileFirst() requires to have read permissions on the parent directory,
opening the file/dir requires read permissions on it.  If home as well
as .ssh are 700, sshd has neither of these rights ==> The check for .ssh
fails.

Qed,
Corinna

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