Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 22:50:38 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, 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: <20000902225038.A40067@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <20000902154753.B1263@hamlet.nectar.com>; from n@nectar.com on Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:47:54PM -0500 References: <41582.967924374@critter> <62717.967924513@verdi.nethelp.no> <20000902145822.B28852@dan.emsphone.com> <20000902150221.A1263@hamlet.nectar.com> <20000902151406.A7615@dan.emsphone.com> <20000902154753.B1263@hamlet.nectar.com>
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On Sat 2000-09-02 (15:47), Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > 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. On the server side, yes. 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
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