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| author |   stevesk <stevesk@openbsd.org> | 2001-11-19 18:40:46 +0000 |
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| committer | stevesk <stevesk@openbsd.org> | 2001-11-19 18:40:46 +0000 |
| commit | 13e0503514e9cb0ca0f608eda89bca9e8d7dddb5 (patch) | |
| tree | 2dc00b59e1b66527fb0311f36a76791e57bd21a5 /usr.bin/ssh/ssh-agent.1 | |
| parent | remove local hack and use ac97_set_rate; tested by form@ (diff) | |
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clarify/state that private keys are not exposed to clients using the agent;
ok markus@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/ssh/ssh-agent.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/ssh/ssh-agent.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-agent.1 b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-agent.1 index 00c19921caa..2b9f3d97c95 100644 --- a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-agent.1 +++ b/usr.bin/ssh/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 |