From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Sep 2 13:21:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9462837B422; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 13:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA80731; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 21:15:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e82KFN740808; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 21:15:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200009022015.e82KFN740808@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: Dan Nelson , sthaug@nethelp.no, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, ume@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: setuid ssh should die (Re: Request for review: nsswitch) In-Reply-To: Message from "Jacques A. Vidrine" of "Sat, 02 Sep 2000 15:02:21 CDT." <20000902150221.A1263@hamlet.nectar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 21:15:23 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 02:58:22PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > Rather, it's so it can read the host key, which is only readable by > > root. > > We're talking about ssh, not sshd. > > IMHO, ssh should be mode 0555. I have to change this all the time on > my machines, since I often socksify ssh. Yes, a make.conf variable would be in order, defaulting to 0555 in line with FallBackToRsh being set to no in /etc/ssh/ssh_config. It would also be worth mentioning the make.conf setting in ssh_config. > -- > Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message