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Re: ssh-host-config requires cygminires.dll
Brian Dessent wrote:
> > ssh_host_*_key.pub are owned by the user that has run ssh-host-config
> > Is it OK ?
>
> If you ran the above commands they should be owned by SYSTEM. The idea
> here is that those files contain the private half of the host's
> public/private keypair, and this is sensitive data. So the file should
> be readable only by the account that runs the ssh daemon. If you are
> the only local user then it doesn't really matter much as you can be
> trusted, but on an actual multiuser posix system you would want to
> restrict the host key files accordingly.
Sorry, I realize I misread. The .pub files are the public half of the
keypair, and should be world-readable by anyone. The ones that don't
end in .pub are the private half of the keypair and should be
restricted.
Brian
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