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Re: FHS compliance and UNIX sockets



Brian May <bam@debian.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "Herbert" == Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:

>     Herbert> Yes, but presumably there is a daemon process which runs
>     Herbert> under a single uid.

> Not for ssh-agent. Exactly one daemon is started for every user who
> requires it. These daemons must be independent of each other (security
> reasons).

In that case, make ssh-agent setuid a new user who owns /var/run/ssh.
Then ssh-agent can create a directory under it for the user invoking
it and make it owned by that user.  The rest is trivial.
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