From owner-freebsd-security Thu May 31 19:36: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-66.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8FED37B422 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 19:35:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A585D678A5; Thu, 31 May 2001 19:35:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:35:55 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Crist Clark Cc: Kris Kennaway , security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Apache Software Foundation Server compromised, resecured. (fwd) Message-ID: <20010531193555.A13334@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3B16E7D9.3E9B78FF@globalstar.com> <20010531183732.B12216@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B16F492.128CB8B0@globalstar.com> <20010531191001.A12808@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B16FD12.B1F251C8@globalstar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="azLHFNyN32YCQGCU" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B16FD12.B1F251C8@globalstar.com>; from crist.clark@globalstar.com on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:25:22PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 07:25:22PM -0700, Crist Clark wrote: > According to the documentation, this is NOT how the agent forwarding > works. The second client passes data, typically a challenge, back to=20 > machine one, where the agent does its thing with the private key=20 > material, then passes the decrypted challenge information back to > machine two. Okay, I'm willing to admit I could be wrong about the mechanism, but the trust relationship still exists. The ssh-agent authenticates on demand, so as long as you're connected to the untrusted system it can authenticate as you to other systems without your permission. Kris --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7Fv+LWry0BWjoQKURAhBqAKCteqxe1RdAiADmmALj81XXeJnvFgCbBveN KHyXsXzvNomLrOL2xWj4qX4= =0RHb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message