[ale] ssh authorized_keys2, what am I missing?

Michael B. Trausch fd0man at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 15:30:38 EDT 2005


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Joe Sechman wrote:
> 
> This actually reminds me of a personal BOFH story when one of our
> users thought it would be *convenient* to 'chmod 777' his home
> directory to *share* files....it worked for that session, but then he
> couldn't re-auth b/c his ssh home-dir permissions were too liberal. 
> It sure was fun to *re-educate*... meet chattr!
> 

hahaha... Riight... Share a folder in the home-dir by making it 777 but
keep the home-dir at 0711.  If were talking about user 'jack', then this
prevents someone from seeing their directory, but permitted to visit the
share directory (if they know it's name):

mtrausch at ibm-mtrausch:~$ cd /home/jack
mtrausch at ibm-mtrausch:/home/jack$ ls -l
/usr/bin/ls: .: Permission denied
mtrausch at ibm-mtrausch:/home/jack$ cd dir
mtrausch at ibm-mtrausch:/home/jack/dir$ ls -l
total 0
mtrausch at ibm-mtrausch:/home/jack/dir$

	- Mike

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