09-01-2008
scp prompt when home directory is 777
Morning all, I was running some deployment scripts on Friday night that kept failing because it prompted for a password for a user I was already sudo'd in as when trying to scp a file onto itself.
e.g.
on server 51.123.123.123 as sudo dlam
typing: scp testfile dlam@51.123.123.123:/tmp
prompts for a password
Turned out that it was because the home directory for dlam had been set as permissions 777 instead of 755. When they are 755 there is no propt for a password and everything works fine.
So a simple question, is this a bug, or is there a good reason for this?
Cheers
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SCHEDCTL(8) BSD System Manager's Manual SCHEDCTL(8)
NAME
schedctl -- control scheduling of processes and threads
SYNOPSIS
schedctl [-A cpus] [-C class] [-P pri] [-t lid] -p pid | command
DESCRIPTION
The schedctl command can be used to control the scheduling of processes and threads. It also returns information about the current schedul-
ing parameters of the process or thread. Only the super-user may change the scheduling parameters. schedctl can also be used to start a new
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Available options:
-A cpus Set of the processors on which process or thread should run, that is, affinity. Processors are defined as numbers (starting from
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-C class Scheduling class (policy), one of:
SCHED_OTHER Time-sharing (TS) scheduling policy. The default policy in NetBSD.
SCHED_FIFO First in, first out (FIFO) scheduling policy.
SCHED_RR Round-robin scheduling policy.
-P pri Priority for the process or thread. Value should be in the range from SCHED_PRI_MIN (0) to SCHED_PRI_MAX (63). Setting of prior-
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EXAMPLES
Show scheduling information about the process whose ID is ``123'':
# schedctl -p 123
Set the affinity to CPU 0 and CPU 1, policy to SCHED_RR, and priority to 63 for thread whose ID is ``1'' in process whose ID is ``123'':
# schedctl -p 123 -t 1 -A 0,1 -C SCHED_RR -P 63
Run the top(1) command with real-time priority:
# schedctl -C SCHED_FIFO top
SEE ALSO
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HISTORY
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