Package: putty-tools
Version: 0.58-5
Severity: normal
When i run puttygen (either to create a new key, or to translate an
openssh-style key), the emitted ppk file (the putty private key) is
created with the standard umask, which by default in debian leaves
things world-readable.
this is in contrast to ssh-keygen from the openssh suite, which
creates private keys with group and other permissions all off, no
matter what the current umask.
I think that ssh-keygen's approach is what people expect and intend
when it comes to public keys, and it's a better idea to make these
things safe-by-default.
Thanks for maintianing the putty tools in debian, by the way. In
addition to the importance of having multiple implementations of
SSHv2, it's very useful to have these cross-platform translation
capabilities available to help our friends who are stuck in windows!
Regards,
--dkg
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages putty-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
putty-tools recommends no packages.
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