It's not so much sandard behavior, but sshd's unability to chdir into
$HOME. Why it doesn't let you log in is beyond me, but any other login
method will at least complain if you did something like 'chmod 700 /home'.
My ssh 2.0.10 under linux does not have this problem.
-CJO-
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Scott D. Yelich wrote:
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>On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Ryan Permeh wrote:
>> This is standard unix behaviour. if a user's home directory path isn't
>> readable by that user, they can't access it. typically the /home dir should
>> be world readable as should the / dir. home directories can be any
>> permissions a user wants and should be owned by the user themselves.
>> Ryan
>
>Hello, moderator?
>
>Your statements are simply not correct... and it's not the job of each
>and every application to inflict upon the system its opinion of what
>"standard unix behaviour" should be. Just imagine if this were the case
>and you had 15 different apps each thinking the "standard unix
>behaviour" was something different -- or worse, something completely
>contradictory.
>
>I'm not sure discussing "Standard unix behaviour" would be productive
>here...
>
>Sorry.
>
>Scott
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