ssh public key authentication

[ryz]

There is a setting in the SSH server that tells it to check for healthy permission on the users home folder for the user that tries to login with a public key. I think it is the StrictModes yes in the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config. You could changes that to no and the reconfigure the ssh server with

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/etc/init.d/ssh reload

SSH does not know if the group that the home folder has is only accessible by the user and that it will stay so. If any other user has write permission to the /home/press folder that user can change the /home/press/.ssh folder and hence put its own public key there and then login in as the user press.

Bubba is not set up to have a single primary group for each user. All users share the same primary group.

[Ubi]

I think it is the StrictModes yes in the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config. You could changes that to no and the reconfigure the ssh server with

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/etc/init.d/ssh reload

well.. yes you can.
But would you really want to? Or would you want to recommend this to other users? I'd say the first "S" of SSH is to be taken seriously, and in this forum we should help people creating a secure and reliable working environment, rather than suggesting workarounds that disable important security measures.

[Pressurized]

...SSH does not know if the group that the home folder has is only accessible by the user and that it will stay so. If any other user has write permission to the /home/press folder that user can change the /home/press/.ssh folder and hence put its own public key there and then login in as the user press. Bubba is not set up to have a single primary group for each user. All users share the same primary group.

Exactly right. Even though my network would be pretty secure in the circumstance, it is better not to weaken the fundamental security the distro offers:

But would you really want to? Or would you want to recommend this to other users? I'd say the first "S" of SSH is to be taken seriously, and in this forum we should help people creating a secure and reliable working environment, rather than suggesting workarounds that disable important security measures.

But I appreciate knowing about the option even so.