Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:48:25 +0200 From: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> To: Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ~/.ssh directory permissions Message-ID: <4B45B6F6-007E-4DDC-994F-1369FEAEBA7D@boosten.org> In-Reply-To: <b6c05a470906230706w5154c697uedb41f2164681a0a@mail.gmail.com> References: <b6c05a470906230706w5154c697uedb41f2164681a0a@mail.gmail.com>
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On 23 jun 2009, at 16:06, Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com> wrote: > Looking at my ~/.ssh directory, I see the following permissions: > > -rw-r--r-- > > Which I understand to be equivalent to 644. > > I read here <http://sial.org/howto/openssh/publickey-auth/>; that > ~/.ssh ought to have permissions 700. > > Which is preferable, and why? > __ 700, you private key(s) go in there. Peter
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