ssh-agent and socket permission check

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Fri Jul 25 08:09:28 EST 2014


On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Igor Bukanov wrote:

> I would like to run ssh-agent under a different account to make sure that
> its memory holding private keys is not readable.

It shouldn't be anyway. We ship it setgid by default and also use prctl()
on Linux to prevent ptrace()


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