#5320 HIGH Never A: ssh reports "bad ownership or modes for directory /home/olpc"

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Tue Dec 4 16:06:16 EST 2007


#5320: ssh reports "bad ownership or modes for directory /home/olpc"
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 Reporter:  MitchellNCharity  |       Owner:  jg            
     Type:  defect            |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  high              |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  distro            |     Version:                
 Keywords:                    |    Verified:  0             
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 Joyride 1366 (Dec 04).

 Under qemu, ssh'ing in as olpc, using a key and a
 ~olpc/.ssh/authorized_keys, now fails with
  Dec  4 15:57:09 localhost sshd[1492]: Authentication refused: bad
 ownership or modes for directory /home/olpc
 in /var/log/secure.

 root still works.  olpc used to.

  # ls -ld /home/olpc
  drwxrwxr-x 9 olpc olpc 4096 Dec  4 15:57 /home/olpc

  # ls -la /home/olpc/.ssh/
  total 16
  drwx------ 2 olpc olpc 4096 Dec  4 15:12 .
  drwxrwxr-x 9 olpc olpc 4096 Dec  4 15:57 ..
  -rw------- 1 olpc olpc  412 Dec  4 15:12 authorized_keys

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5320>
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