Re: Determining key permission bits

[Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org>]

On 2013-12-20, at 10:51 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> wrote:
>> On 2013-12-20, at 12:13 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Is there any easy way to tell which permission bits a key file has?
>> 
>> Perhaps I’ve misunderstood your question, but
>> 
>> ls -l path/to/keyfile
> 
> Whoops -- I didn't realize my question was ambiguous like that.  I'm
> asking about the read/write/delete/nuke bits.

Ah. You mean how to find out what a particular key is authorized to do. (I got misled by the word “file” in your question.)

Anyway, I don’t know. I wasn’t aware until just now that keys could be set up with limited authority.


(Please also understand that my jumping to the conclusion that you didn’t know about basic Unix file permissions was no insult. I do some customer support work, and so tend to assume the least knowledge of people asking questions.)

Cheers,

-j