RE: Is RSA authentication on SSH still broken?

["Harig, Mark A." <maharig at idirect dot net>]

> >        chmod 700 ~ && \
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is your problem.  By setting home and .ssh to 700 you 
> disallow sshd to
> stat() ~/.ssh.  Cygwin has two chances to retrieve 
> information about a file
> or directory, by either calling FindFileFirst() or by trying 
> to open the
> file and calling various Win32 access functions.
> 
> FindFileFirst() requires to have read permissions on the 
> parent directory,
> opening the file/dir requires read permissions on it.  If home as well
> as .ssh are 700, sshd has neither of these rights ==> The 
> check for .ssh
> fails.

OK.  So, it appears that Cygwin users
of openssh have one of two options:

1. chmod 700 ~
   chgrp 18 ~/.ssh
   chmod 750 ~/.ssh

or 

2. chmod 755 ~
   chmod 700 ~/.ssh 

Do you have a recommendation on which of
these two options is more secure?

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