ssh-agent too easy to hack

Markus Friedl markus at openbsd.org
Tue Jan 15 20:01:36 EST 2002


On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 01:09:44AM +0100, Tim McGarry wrote:
> 3/ ssh and sshd, do a really good job of totally ignoring
> id_???/identity/authorized_keys etc if the permissions aren't absolutely as
> required, shouldn't the same stringent tests be applied to the
> directories/sockets used by the agent? (yes I realize that anyone whose sued
> to root, can easily su to be me)

check how the agent creates the directory



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