Pete Harlan wrote: > > The problem is that "ssh" won't work unless you remove group-write > permissions from your home directory (and the ~/.ssh directory). > > It's either a misconfiguration with Debian (i.e., files should not be > group-writable by default) or with the ssh Debian package (i.e., it > shouldn't mind that a directory/file is group-writable); neither way > is clearly better than the other, but they should at least agree. >
i installed ssh using the tar file distribution and i did not have any permissions problems, so maybe it is package issue. m* -- "The Shining One" --