[Bug 1554] New: No feedback when configuration file permissions are set incorrectly.

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1554

           Summary: No feedback when configuration file permissions are
                    set incorrectly.
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 5.1p1
          Platform: ix86
        OS/Version: Cygwin on NT/2k
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P3
         Component: ssh
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: bgassend at exponent.com


Hi,

On a couple of occasions I have had very frustrating sessions getting
public key authentication to work. These sessions are particularly
frustrating because there is no feedback on why the public key
authentication is failing. Adding verbosity just tells you that your
public key is being tried, but gives no information as to the failure.
sshd might be returning information on the server, but if you do not
have root access, you cannot check this information. In general, useful
error messages on why public key authentication is failing would be
very helpful.

The particular problem I had today was that the permissions were
incorrectly set on .ssh and .ssh/authorized_keys. This is trivial to
fix, if you know what the problem is. But I did not see any error
message that said my authorized_keys file was being ignored because its
permissions were set incorrectly. Having such an error message would be
immensely helpful and probably save thousands of users per year many
hours of time.

Best regards,
Blaise Gassend

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