Unix socket support for sshd

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Fri Feb 5 02:46:55 AEDT 2016


On Thu 2016-02-04 07:40:39 -0500, David Goulet wrote:

> I would like to know if adding support for Unix socket to sshd would be a
> feature that would be consider to be added upstream? (ListenAddress).

fwiw, i think this is a good idea, but i wouldn't implement it as an
explicit ListenAddress option: i'd rather have sshd be able to listen on
an inherited file descriptor.  This would allow generic socket
activation, regardless of socket type.

            --dkg


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