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Date:      Sat, 2 Sep 2000 22:14:24 +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:  <20000902221424.A39558@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000902150221.A1263@hamlet.nectar.com>; from n@nectar.com on Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 03:02:21PM -0500
References:  <41582.967924374@critter> <62717.967924513@verdi.nethelp.no> <20000902145822.B28852@dan.emsphone.com> <20000902150221.A1263@hamlet.nectar.com>

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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


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