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Bug#447935: openssh-client: please provide a way for ssh-agent to send a notification when used



On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 12:20:54AM +0300, Ratiu Petru wrote:
> I'm currently concerned with possible attacks when forwarding the agent
> to shared hosts. I believe that having ssh-agent logging key uses would
> be a step to at least identifying misbehaving root users along the way.
> Notifications via libnotify would be real sweet, as well.
> 
> I haven't noticed any way of obtaining this info from ssh-agent's
> manpage, so if it exists, pardon me and consider this a bug against the
> documentation.

Would the -c option to ssh-add, which asks for confirmation before a key
is used, help with your concern?

Greetings
Marc


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