[ELDK] Permissions on /root directory keep ssh from working properly

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Nov 6 22:07:38 CET 2008


Dear "Dave Rensberger",

In message <B7BC4CB64CA090478F283BA589292737578862 at abtg-mail.ambientcorp.com> you wrote:
> Yes, I mean the user keys.   In a user-less system (i.e. everything is
> root, which I suspect is quite common in DENX as in other embedded linux
> systems), this doesn't work with the default permissions of 775 on
> /root.

If the user is "root", then the files should go into the "/root/.ssh"
directory.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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