Hi!
> >If an attacker has enough privileges for attacking the daemon, he should
> >usually also have enough privileges for attacking the kernel.
>
> Not necessarily, if you have your ssh-keys in ssh-agent, a compromise of
> your account (forgot to lock the screen while going to the bathroom?
> did the OOM-condition occur which killed the program which locks the
> screen? remote compromise of the system? local compromise?) means that a
> large array of attacks are possible against the daemon.
Run your ssh-agent on root, then. That's as safe as kernel... And does
not add potential security holes into kernel :-).
Pavel
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Thanks, Sharp!
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