ssh-add: local private keys added to forwarded agents

[Nicolas Williams]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 04:25:59PM +0100, Dave Ryan wrote:
> [ I am on the list, would you mind removing me from future replies? thanks. ]

Sure. It's a bad habit of mine to respond to all rather than just the
list, a bad habit partly borne out of being used to duplicate filtering.
You should try it :) :)

> Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com said the following on Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:58:37AM -0400, 
> > 
> > The behaviour you describe does not violate the [draft] specification. Clearly, many (most!) SSH users do not store keys in smartcards or any other kind of removable media, and noone claims such behaviour to be in violation of the [draft] spec. Note the word "ideally" in the spec text you quote.
> 
> Ok, I think you are confused, I was not referring to storage on smartcards (I
> should probably have cut the kruft out).

Ah, yes. Still, "goal" is not "MUST"; to be a requirement the text must
use a "MUST" or "MUST NOT" or so on (is that a "legal" idiom?) (see RFC3160).

> > But I am not making such a proposal. I'm big enough to keep track of and
> > know which sessions are which and which sessions have forwarded agents and
> > which don't.
> 
> Like I said an addition to the man page would probably be sufficient, 
> surely its wrong to assume everyone is as big as you?

Indeed. I'm sure that if you open a bug in the bugzilla db for OpenSSH
the OpenSSH folk will consider it.

> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> ugc Security Research
> http://www.ugc.org.uk/~dave


Cheers,

Nico
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