SSH key question

[MR ZenWiz]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 10:18 AM Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> Your setup will only work if the "users" group contains only you, and no
> other users.  Otherwise sshd will consider it insecure, because the
> group-writability is no longer harmless: other users could use their
> write access to your home directory to modify your ~/.ssh/ directory
> (possibly by renaming the original out of the way).
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That explains it - many thanks, Colin.

I have fixed the permissions and they are now fine.  I have other ways
to go around the limitation that do not include writability to my home
directory or through it.

Problem solved!

Thanks all who responded and I hope this helps those who did not as well.

Mark