Upgrade .....

In linux, as in other OSes, well meant upgrades can break things. I suspect a change in policy happened during an "upgrade".

Here are a couple of things I learnt:

RSA_public_decrypt failed: error:04067069:lib(4):func(103):reason(105)

Read: Our decryption is silly. It wont handle keys of all sizes. Try 2^n.


Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for file /?????/????/.ssh/authorized_keys

AKA: We are silly. Though only public keys are stored here, we dont want default permissions for this file. So what if the actual keys have silly permissions.

Do you detect a note of silliness? This took me almost 3 weeks to figure out.