ssh-host-config requires cygminires.dll

[a12]

Hello again,

I have just checked the ownership of .pub files, and they are readable 
by everyone.

Brian Dessent wrote:

>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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