Connection caching?

Sergio Gelato Sergio.Gelato at astro.su.se
Mon May 3 18:50:59 EST 2004


* David Woodhouse [2004-05-03 01:56:38 +0100]:
> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 10:47 +1000, Damien Miller wrote:
> > > You also want to include the username, 
> > 
> > I don't think you would want to put the control files anywhere other
> > than a mode 0700 directory owned by the user who started the
> > connection. We enforce similar restrictions on keys and (in -current)
> > .ssh/config. Given this, I don't see a need for putting the username in
> > there.
> 
> Remote username, not local username.

While you're at it, include also the port number sshd is running on (if
different from 22, at least). Same reason as for the remote username.




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