Bad ownership of /?

Kārlis Repsons karlis.repsons at gmail.com
Sat Jan 17 08:49:30 EST 2009


On Friday 16 January 2009 21:34:44 you wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Kārlis Repsons wrote:
> > Hello,
> > this is one more unfortunate case, when I run into problems with some
> > non-standard configuration: if authorized keys file for user %u is
> > /keys/%u or /keys/%u/.ssh/authorized_keys, I receive an error:
> > sshd: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory /
> > !
> >
> > Whats the cure? I can't keep those files into /home easily...
>
> What *are* the permissions on /?

I should have taken it literally as it should be.
My fault, I fixed. Sorry for a little "alert". Indeed I complained too soon.


More information about the openssh-unix-dev mailing list