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Date:      Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:06:03 -0400
From:      Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   ~/.ssh directory permissions
Message-ID:  <b6c05a470906230706w5154c697uedb41f2164681a0a@mail.gmail.com>

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Looking at my ~/.ssh directory, I see the following permissions:

-rw-r--r--

Which I understand to be equivalent to 644.

I read here <http://sial.org/howto/openssh/publickey-auth/>; that
~/.ssh ought to have permissions 700.

Which is preferable, and why?



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