Re: ssh quirks...

[rrpermeh () RCONNECT COM (Ryan Permeh)]

This is standard unix behaviour.  if a user's home directory path isn't
readable by that user, they can't access it.  typically the /home dir should
be world readable  as should the / dir.  home directories can be any
permissions a user wants and should be owned by the user themselves.
Ryan

"Scott D. Yelich" wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
> On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Stanislav N. Vardomskiy wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> > > At best you can get a file in /etc/ that is owned by yourself.
> > This just *might* be a problem.
> [DELETED]
> > Lastly, a simplest denial of service, creating /etc/nologin can disrupt
> > the service.
>
> SSH seems very finicky... in many ways.  Unless this has been changed
> in recent versions, it's also possible to disrupt/deny ssh service
> if the directory *above* a login id's home directory isn't readable.
>
> Can anyone explain what *that* requirement is for?
>
> Scott
> ps: Also, as a side note, scp seems to ignore alternative-login in ssh.
> I'm not sure if that's a feature or a bug -- I consider it a bug and
> thus have disabled scp on sites where I use alternative-login.
> pps: 1.2.26
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: 2.6.2
>
> iQCVAwUBOGYarB4PLs9vCOqdAQH01gQA3NRhNlkjozdW6lb/FRsmOXWF3Y9quMzr
> dQw804dEZ4CtkkTPX5rEoReKCAXvFn2FM6ZXOOYAYLytw7mXMHWvYmcbc25/MtR7
> YoJYnb/OKDfSLc50GZmJUEEv8JmS5gG51AAyWvHggnWqnhUocz7pu6kVXv4YhjmA
> kOTd77t3bU4=
> =CNt9
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----