Recently I messed up my life by running this from out of my home folder: $> chmod 600 * Naturally I thought to be in another folder 😉 The result was, that I could not open any programs any more. What was not that nice! 😉 To get out of trouble I had to run […]
Sometimes I had problems to connect to a server via public key authentication. In most cases I could solve them by setting up the right permissions for the file and path of the authorized_keys file. This can be done as shown below: $> chmod 700 $HOME/.ssh $> chmod 600 $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys $> chmod go-w $HOME $HOME/.ssh […]
