No way to use ssh ~/.ssh/config with "noacl" option

[Matt D.]

On 11/4/2017 7:47 AM, Matt D. wrote:
> On 11/4/2017 7:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Nov  4 05:47, Matt D. wrote:
>>> I mount with "noacl" as I don't need ACLs for my purposes and prefer to
>>> leave everything up to Windows permissions.
>>>
>>> The problem with this is that ssh insists that ~/.ssh/config be less
>>> permissive. But this file is bound to --rw-r--r-- for this option.
>>>
>>> Would it be appropriate to request ssh to ignore this requirement when
>>> "noacl" present on the mounted volume?
>>
>> Yes, in theory.  However, this shouldn't be necessary.
>>
>> Ssh already has code to check extrem perms only in "acl" mounted
>> directories, but it does not have this extra check for config files,
>> basically because it was never necessary:
>>
>> If you use noacl, your file perms are faked to always be 644, or
>> 444 if the DOS R/O bit is set, or 755/555 if executable/directory.
>> Additionally all files are faked as if they are owned by your own
>> account.
>>
>> Ssh checks the config file like this:
>>
>>    if (((sb.st_uid != 0 && sb.st_uid != getuid()) ||
>>        (sb.st_mode & 022) != 0))
>>       fatal("Bad owner or permissions on %s", filename);
>>
>> Which means, 0644 permissions are perfectly fine.  As are 755 perms
>> for the ~/.ssh and ~ dirs.
>>
>> I just mounted my home dir "noacl".  The perms are as expected:
>>
>>    $ ls -ld . .ssh .ssh/config .ssh/id_local
>>    drwxr-xr-x 1 corinna vinschen    0 Nov  4 12:27 .
>>    drwxr-xr-x 1 corinna vinschen    0 Mar 14  2017 .ssh
>>    -rw-r--r-- 1 corinna vinschen  703 Jan 19  2017 .ssh/config
>>    -rw-r--r-- 1 corinna vinschen 7329 Jan 12  2017 .ssh/id_local
>>
>> Note especially the too open perms in case of the private keyfile
>> "id_local".  Still, I can ssh into one of my other machines just fine.
>>
>> How come this doesn't work for you?
>>
>>
>> Corinna
>>
>
> I don't know why it doesn't work for me other than the reported error. I
> am trying to use ssh combined with git. My .ssh permissions are:
>
> $ls -ld . .ssh .ssh/config .ssh/github
> drwxr-xr-x 1 Matthew D'Onofrio None    0 Nov  4 06:42 .
> drwxr-xr-x 1 Matthew D'Onofrio None    0 Nov  4 04:51 .ssh
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Matthew D'Onofrio None   80 Nov  4 04:51 .ssh/config
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Matthew D'Onofrio None 3243 Nov  3 10:53 .ssh/github
>
> I removed the noacl option in fstab, re-ran Cygwin setup, set
> .ssh/config to 600 and ssh was happy. I then reverted back to noacl and
> the problem returned.
>
> I'm in the process of trying to build openssh with cygpath for debugging
> but this is my first time building anything from Cygwin or using
> cygports so it's taking some time.
>
>
> Matt D.

Please stand by. Looking into this further.


Matt D.

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