OpenSSH daemon security bug?

Davi Diaz davi at leals.com
Thu Jan 7 05:29:59 EST 2010


Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> "ssh -A" *will* expose the ability to *use* the private key to
> the remote host, unless your agent is configured to prompt the user
> before using the key ("ssh-add -c").
>
> So [...] the remote host [...] will have effective access to the key.


> See Matt Taggart's "Good Practices for ssh" for more tips:
>   http://lackof.org/taggart/hacking/ssh/

In my opinion this is a misfeature which removes any good from key based 
security because you depend on good practices.

Back to use account-passwords access only.


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