From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] system/permissions: make /root group+others non-writable
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 10:08:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130623100802.652eac9d@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371939752-29205-1-git-send-email-yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Dear Yann E. MORIN,
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 00:22:32 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
>
> Upon logging, dropbear whines if /root is group- or others-writable, and
> key-based authentication is attempted, reverting to password-based
> authentication:
> dropbear[149]: /root must be owned by user or root, and not writable by others
> dropbear[149]: Password auth succeeded for 'root' from 192.168.127.35:41566
>
> On my system, /root was 770. Changing to 700 fixed the issue.
>
> Having /root 700 is a good idea, anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
--
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-23 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-22 22:22 [Buildroot] [PATCH] system/permissions: make /root group+others non-writable Yann E. MORIN
2013-06-23 8:08 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-06-24 11:56 ` Peter Korsgaard
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20130623100802.652eac9d@skate \
--to=thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com \
--cc=buildroot@busybox.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox