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
bash-3.00$