potential sshd gotcha

[John Horne]

On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 17:11 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I spent hours at work today getting sshd to function on
> my desktop which I just switched to booting from the
> fedora 18 partition. I finally discovered this:
> 
> [root at zooty ~]# ls -l /etc/ssh
> total 276
> -rw-------  1 root root     245058 Dec  3 11:43 moduli
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root       2104 Dec  3 11:43 ssh_config
> -r--------. 1 root ssh_keys    668 Dec  5 20:35 ssh_host_dsa_key
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root        590 Dec  5 20:35 ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
> -r--------. 1 root ssh_keys    963 Dec  5 20:35 ssh_host_key
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root        627 Dec  5 20:35 ssh_host_key.pub
> -r--------. 1 root ssh_keys   1675 Dec  5 20:35 ssh_host_rsa_key
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root        382 Dec  5 20:35 ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
> -rw-------  1 root root       4615 Dec 26 14:47 sshd_config
> 
> The private key files now want to be group "ssh_keys".
> 
The same was true with Fedora 17.




John.

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