[Bug 2276] AuthorizedKeysCommand: add an option for alternate owner

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Wed Mar 4 10:19:56 AEDT 2015


https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2276

--- Comment #6 from Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> ---
(In reply to Alon Bar-Lev from comment #2)
> (In reply to Damien Miller from comment #1)
> > I think it would be reasonable to relax the permission check to
> > allow the command to be owned by the user who started sshd as well
> > as root. I don't think another option is warranted or necessary.
> 
> I thought that the original code was designed to block the user that
> ssh into local to modify the command, I did not want to violate this
> restriction.
> 
> Did I understand incorrectly why we limit ownership?

That is indeed the intent, and allowing the user who started sshd in
addition to root doesn't violate it.

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