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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | ssh-agent.1 | 7 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ - markus@cvs.openbsd.org 2001/11/19 11:20:21 [sshd.c] fd leak on HUP; ok stevesk@ + - stevesk@cvs.openbsd.org 2001/11/19 18:40:46 + [ssh-agent.1] + clarify/state that private keys are not exposed to clients using the + agent; ok markus@ 20011126 - (tim) [contrib/cygwin/README, openbsd-compat/bsd-cygwin_util.c, @@ -6934,4 +6938,4 @@ - Wrote replacements for strlcpy and mkdtemp - Released 1.0pre1 -$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.1670 2001/12/06 16:35:40 mouring Exp $ +$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.1671 2001/12/06 16:37:51 mouring Exp $ diff --git a/ssh-agent.1 b/ssh-agent.1 index 00c19921..2b9f3d97 100644 --- a/ssh-agent.1 +++ b/ssh-agent.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-agent.1,v 1.28 2001/09/05 06:23:07 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-agent.1,v 1.29 2001/11/19 18:40:46 stevesk Exp $ .\" .\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi> .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland @@ -127,6 +127,11 @@ Later .Xr ssh 1 looks at these variables and uses them to establish a connection to the agent. .Pp +The agent will never send a private key over its request channel. +Instead, operations that require a private key will be performed +by the agent, and the result will be returned to the requester. +This way, private keys are not exposed to clients using the agent. +.Pp A unix-domain socket is created .Pq Pa /tmp/ssh-XXXXXXXX/agent.<pid> , and the name of this socket is stored in the |