#5320 HIGH Update.: ssh reports "bad ownership or modes for directory /home/olpc"

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Wed Dec 19 11:20:06 EST 2007


#5320: ssh reports "bad ownership or modes for directory /home/olpc"
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  Reporter:  MitchellNCharity  |       Owner:  cscott             
      Type:  defect            |      Status:  new                
  Priority:  high              |   Milestone:  Update.1           
 Component:  distro            |     Version:                     
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:  rainbow-integration
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Changes (by ffm):

 * cc: ffm (added)


Comment:

 That would be a bad idea, as a rouge activity could add an arbitrary ssh
 key in .ssh/authorized_keys, thus allowing the laptop to be comprimised.
 And since user olpc will soon have sudo rights, a malicious user could
 comprimise root.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5320#comment:6>
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