Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 22:24:05 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, sthaug@nethelp.no, ume@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setuid ssh should die (Re: Request for review: nsswitch) Message-ID: <41784.967926245@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Sep 2000 21:15:23 BST." <200009022015.e82KFN740808@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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In message <200009022015.e82KFN740808@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>, Brian Somers write s: >> 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. Uhm, how about a ssh_config variable where you tell it to drop the setuid bit right away, wouldn't that work ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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