Re: ssh quirks...

[lordvadr () POBOX COM (C.J. Oster)]

It's not so much sandard behavior, but sshd's unability to chdir into
$HOME.  Why it doesn't let you log in is beyond me, but any other login
method will at least complain if you did something like 'chmod 700 /home'.
My ssh 2.0.10 under linux does not have this problem.

-CJO-

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Scott D. Yelich wrote:

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> On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Ryan Permeh wrote:
> > 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
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> Hello, moderator?
>
> Your statements are simply not correct... and it's not the job of each
> and every application to inflict upon the system its opinion of what
> "standard unix behaviour" should be.  Just imagine if this were the case
> and you had 15 different apps each thinking the "standard unix
> behaviour" was something different -- or worse, something completely
> contradictory.
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> I'm not sure discussing "Standard unix behaviour" would be productive
> here...
>
> Sorry.
>
> Scott
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