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Bug#395432: openssh-client: ssh-agent ignores TMP env variable for placing its temporary files



On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 09:19:14AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote:
> it should be looking at TMP or TMPDIR

   adric@yggdrasil[~]$ dir `which ssh-agent`
   -rwxr-sr-x 1 root ssh 65836 Oct 24 16:06 /usr/bin/ssh-agent

Since ssh-agent has the setgid bit set, it won't even see the TMPDIR 
variable... this gets stripped out by ld-linux. The TMP variable will 
remain, however.

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