Bug 1740

Summary:

Misleading error message in ssh-keygen

Product:

Portable OpenSSH

Reporter:

jchadima

Component:

ssh-keygen

Assignee:

Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>

Status:

CLOSED FIXED

Severity:

minor

CC:

djm, jchadima

Priority:

Version:

5.4p1

Hardware:

All

OS:

Linux

Attachments:

Description	Flags
patch solving the problem	none
keygen-report-stat-errors.diff	dtucker: ok+

Description jchadima 2010-03-24 22:04:20 AEDT

In the case of unaccessible $HOME the ssh-keygen writes misleading error message

Comment 1 jchadima 2010-03-24 22:05:45 AEDT

Created attachment 1818 [details]
patch solving the problem

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2010-04-09 11:09:41 AEST

Is the error message that you are talking about "Could not create directory '/home/djm/.ssh'"? That doesn't seem misleading to me.

Comment 3 jchadima 2010-04-09 16:44:11 AEST

In the case when the directory exists it's misleading. One user contact me me asking why it prints "Could not create
directory '/home/luser/.ssh'" when I have one? 

The stat() result EPERM means that user have insufficient permissions to existing file, respectively to the directory containing the file.

Comment 4 Damien Miller 2010-04-23 11:12:12 AEST

Created attachment 1842 [details]
keygen-report-stat-errors.diff

tweaked patch

Comment 5 Damien Miller 2010-04-23 11:49:42 AEST

patch applied. Will be in OpenSSH-5.6p1

Comment 6 Damien Miller 2011-01-24 12:33:35 AEDT

Move resolved bugs to CLOSED after 5.7 release