time to fix silly ssh bug

Bryn M. Reeves bmr at redhat.com
Tue Jun 19 15:19:18 UTC 2012


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On 06/19/2012 04:02 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
>> Jun 19 09:44:41 nbecker5 sshd[25418]: Authentication refused:
>> bad ownership or modes for directory /home/nbecker
> 
> Looks like a new change in OpenSSH then, which is IMHO a
> regression, unless there's a clear security vulnerability being
> addressed there.

OpenSSH has behaved this way as long as I have been using it (I just
checked and even sshd_config on a Fedora Core *1* box has the
StrictModes option).

There's nothing new here at all.

Regards,
Bryn.
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