Re: [Nix-dev] PAM SSH agent auth question

2015-01-13 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 13/01/15 05:00, aldiyen wrote: Anyone know why the NixOS PAM config that gets generated when the sshAgentAuth setting is set to true includes files owned by the user (within that user's home directory)? It seems like this could be rather insecure, given that an attacker who

Re: [Nix-dev] PAM SSH agent auth question

2015-01-13 Thread Matt Explosion
Perhaps it should be made configurable (on a per service basis), with a more secure/best-practice type default, so it can be overriden as needed? I would be happy to make the necessary changes and make a pull request if so On 1/13/15, 8:26 AM, Eelco Dolstra edols...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On

[Nix-dev] PAM SSH agent auth question

2015-01-12 Thread aldiyen
Hey all, Anyone know why the NixOS PAM config that gets generated when the sshAgentAuth setting is set to true includes files owned by the user (within that user's home directory)? It seems like this could be rather insecure, given that an attacker who obtained the ability to write files