From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Sep 2 13:17: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C097A37B424; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 13:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13VJgG-000AJP-00; Sat, 02 Sep 2000 22:14:24 +0200 Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 22:14:24 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: Dan Nelson , sthaug@nethelp.no, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, ume@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setuid ssh should die (Re: Request for review: nsswitch) Message-ID: <20000902221424.A39558@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <41582.967924374@critter> <62717.967924513@verdi.nethelp.no> <20000902145822.B28852@dan.emsphone.com> <20000902150221.A1263@hamlet.nectar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000902150221.A1263@hamlet.nectar.com>; from n@nectar.com on Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:02:21PM -0500 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat 2000-09-02 (15:02), Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > 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. So was he. He is talking RhostsRSAAuthentication. I think we needn't worry about it, and we should default to non-suid, with a comment in the configuration stating that RhostsRSAAuthentication requires suid-root on the ssh binary on the client side. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message