similar to: ssh-keygen: error if file is directory

Salar Nosrati-Ershad wrote: > On several tasks if you pass a directory as a file to ssh-keygen, the > program wouldn't check the file mode to check if it's a directory like: > `Saving key "./test/" failed: Is a directory` > After asking the user to overwrite or not. Seems an appropriate error message is emitted to the caller if the argument is of an incorrect type.

I concur. It should be the operating system's responsibility to come up with appropriate error messages, not every application that runs on the operating system. From: openssh-unix-dev <openssh-unix-dev-bounces+herbie.robinson=stratus.com at mindrot.org> On Behalf Of Bob Proulx Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2025 10:45 AM To: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org Subject: Re: ssh-keygen: error

Greeting I'm newbie to Squirrelmail and just installed Dovecot in CentOS6.3. When I try to login to the Squirrelmail, then I get the following error: ?auth: Info: passwd(myusername at myserver.com): unknown user my config file is as follow: # /usr/bin/doveconf -n -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # 2.0.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 x86_64 CentOS release 6.3