From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Sep 2 13:47:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F168837B423; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 13:47:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hamlet.nectar.com (hamlet.nectar.com [10.0.1.102]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D4F81925F; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 15:47:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by hamlet.nectar.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA01346; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 15:47:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 15:47:54 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Dan Nelson Cc: 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: <20000902154753.B1263@hamlet.nectar.com> References: <41582.967924374@critter> <62717.967924513@verdi.nethelp.no> <20000902145822.B28852@dan.emsphone.com> <20000902150221.A1263@hamlet.nectar.com> <20000902151406.A7615@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000902151406.A7615@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@emsphone.com on Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:14:07PM -0500 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:14:07PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > (assume we're connecting from pc1 to pc2 ) > > Right; if ssh is not setuid, it doesn't have access to pc1's private > host key, so the sshd on pc2 cannot verify pc1's identity. That means > sshd can't use .shosts. See the ssh/sshd manpage, under > "RhostsRSAAuthentication". Sorry, I thought you were talking about something else. RhostsRSAAuthentication is, of course, off by default. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message