Once upon a time, Dmitry Belyavskiy <dbelyavs(a)redhat.com> said:
I guess the original idea was to reduce the setuid footprint (which is a
good goal). I though host-based auth was deprecated at this point
anyway - it's not enabled by default, right?
Just a thought: if "reduce setuid-root binaries installed by default" is
a goal, what about splitting ssh-keysign off into a subpackage, like
openssh-hostauth, that's not installed by default? That could
optionally even include a ssh_config.d drop-in that would enable it
(although that may not be desired, since even using host-based auth may
not be desired gloablly).
You already have to take some action to enable host-based auth, so I
wouldn't see this as a big step.
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Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>