OpenSSH won't store credentials

[Nicolas Williams]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 10:28:11AM +0000, Emmanuel le Chevoir wrote:
> In article <20020326140930.X25226 at sm2p1386swk.wdr.com>, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > b) /etc/krb5.keytab is readable.
> > This was quite a surprise to me.
> 
> Are you sure about that ? isn't it a bit dangerous to let everyone know
> about services keytabs ?!... I use openssh 3.02 with kerberos auth, and
> all goes fine, with 0600 perms on the keytabs file. 

Sshd is running as root at that point. Really. I didn't say
"world-readable".

> Or I must be missing some point...
> 
> --
> Emmanuel le Chevoir


Nico
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