Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

[Max Bowsher]

Harig, Mark A. <maharig@idirect.net> wrote:
> OK.  So, it appears that Cygwin users
> of openssh have one of two options:
>
> 1. chmod 700 ~
>    chgrp 18 ~/.ssh
>    chmod 750 ~/.ssh
>
> or
>
> 2. chmod 755 ~
>    chmod 700 ~/.ssh
>
> Do you have a recommendation on which of
> these two options is more secure?

I'm assuming you meant:
$ chmod 750 ~
$ chgrp 18 ~
$ chmod 700 ~/.ssh
Since obviously world-readable ~ is less secure than user-only-readable ~.

In which case, 1. seems better to me, because it actually grants SYSTEM
permissions where it needs them, rather than granting them somewhere else
and Windows weirdness making things work.


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