On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 02:29:48PM +0100, Michael Stillwell wrote:
> I use this, together this a shell script, to run ssh-agent: I set
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK to /tmp/$USER/agent via environment.plist, and then, via
> the shell script that runs at login, hard link the ssh-agent-generated
> directory (seems to be random) to /tmp/$USER/agent.
ssh-agent -a $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
No need for hard links and other ingeniuous hacks. :)
> (Would be interested to know if there are any issues--security or
> otherwise--to this approach. Does ssh-agent generate "random"
> directory names to avoid collisions, or is there also a security
> reason?)
Make sure the directory is yours, only readable and writable by you, and
empty, before running ssh-agent. I'd assume ssh-agent does that checks
by itself, but I never checked.
--
lfr
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