[Bug 1886] Please move /tmp/ssh-XXXXXXXXXXXX directory to /var/run

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1886

--- Comment #2 from Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> 2011-04-02 12:15:40 EST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> /var/run is not user-writable on most Unix variants.

ssh-agent could simply fall back to /tmp if /var/run fails.

> Furthermore,
> safely reaping stale files from /tmp is a long solved problem

Not entirely.  Some systems remove old files from /tmp at boot time,
but that can result in unexpected data loss.  Furthermore, tmpreaper at
least avoids removing sockets unless explicitly requested.

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