Home and .ssh directory ownership and permissions

This topic describes the issues related to .ssh directory ownership and permissions.

Make sure users own their home directories, which is not normally the case on Windows. They should also own ~/.ssh and the files it contains. Here is an example of file attributes that work:
bash-3.00$ ls -l -d ~
drwx------  1 demyn  Domain Users  0 Dec  5 11:53 /dev/fs/D/Users/demyn
bash-3.00$ ls -l -d ~/.ssh
drwx------  1 demyn  Domain Users  0 Oct 26 13:37 /dev/fs/D/Users/demyn/.ssh
bash-3.00$ ls -l ~/.ssh
total 11
drwx------  1 demyn  Domain Users     0 Oct 26 13:37 .
drwx------  1 demyn  Domain Users     0 Dec  5 11:53 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 demyn  Domain Users   603 Oct 26 13:37 authorized_keys2
-rw-------  1 demyn  Domain Users   672 Oct 26 13:33 id_dsa
-rw-r--r--  1 demyn  Domain Users   603 Oct 26 13:33 id_dsa.pub
-rw-r--r--  1 demyn  Domain Users  2230 Nov 11 07:57 known_hosts
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