Re: SSH_USER_AUTH

2022-09-18 Thread Darren Tucker
On Mon, 19 Sept 2022 at 04:36, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > does anyone still know the motivation for SSH_USER_AUTH pointing to a > file with the data instead of containing it directly? Authentication data is sensitive and a process's environment variables can be inspected by any other p

SSH_USER_AUTH

2022-09-18 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
Hello, does anyone still know the motivation for SSH_USER_AUTH pointing to a file with the data instead of containing it directly? It makes the use a bit more annoying and the only argument I can come up with is not putting up to about 4KB into the environment. Joerg