From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 23 14:06:05 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 158C61065670 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:06:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from djuatdelta@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f212.google.com (mail-ew0-f212.google.com [209.85.219.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D47D8FC1F for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:06:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from djuatdelta@gmail.com) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so126419ewy.43 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:06:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jtbGWQ2Kyxd5wRqEO8fayuNOk5Lw25rMiMR8WRxpF+w=; b=Ybk44a3xFQRYaC/Xp62diDtmAjX+CA7nz4NWx/t2VFjzcSEr+8M9/C9sZET517a5pm ne7uUfzO+K98VH9Ru1N39g+hy8wY22Lkv+sXQ0KMGxXxsROY7Ocn8mfyeZnjGSEO7Fuz 0BUvc0vHzcX24wx9VnHe8C8tG+Y+ZvbrSHKlQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=ZmoKVqvT4JRuSi2iUl9Pe5iSq45zqspVSj29YJwJMkHgs0+ePgGSImQyFebdrdSsaK dSFqOYfHnfYj5EBngEf8Tqu8euIRosDw7E844vXplx94Gi78Y2kq7kshDGRUd4XgCW/P I2UB8wcnCjcCIQrukyfozMzYgPc+xs6LIuIBM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.20.74 with SMTP id o52mr38922weo.147.1245765963040; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:06:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:06:03 -0400 Message-ID: From: Daniel Underwood To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: ~/.ssh directory permissions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:06:05 -0000 Looking at my ~/.ssh directory, I see the following permissions: -rw-r--r-- Which I understand to be equivalent to 644. I read here that ~/.ssh ought to have permissions 700. Which is preferable, and why?