Is it good for agent forwarding to creates socket in /tmp/

tran dung trandung0101 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 1 21:26:32 AEDT 2017


Hi

After logging in to a remote server with ForwardAgent enabled, sshd on the
remote server creates a socket at /tmp/ and permission is 0755/srwxr-xr-x.

What is the reason to allow everyone to read this socket?
Also, is it better to save this socket in /home/user/.ssh/?


Best Regards
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Tran Dung


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