~/.ssh directory permissions

[Peter Boosten]

On 23 jun 2009, at 16:06, Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looking at my ~/.ssh directory, I see the following permissions:
>
> -rw-r--r--
>
> Which I understand to be equivalent to 644.
>
> I read here <http://sial.org/howto/openssh/publickey-auth/> that
> ~/.ssh ought to have permissions 700.
>
> Which is preferable, and why?
> __

700, you private key(s) go in there.

Peter