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Bug#573325: openssh-client: ssh-agent strips LD_LIBRARY_PATH from user profile in X sessions



Hi Julien,

Julien Bigot <julien.bigot@ifrance.com> (10/03/2010):
> ssh-agent as launched by /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent
> is the parent of every user process in an X session however,
> ssh-agent is suid root and thus removes LD_LIBRARY_PATH from its
> environment as a result, setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH in your
> environement does not work for X sessions
> 
> The second approach where ssh-agent generate shell commands should
> be used instead.  With this approach it is not the father of other
> processes anymore.

(oh, une machine para*)

I guess it would be nice to have a proposed tested patch, so that we
can discuss its inclusion.

KiBi.

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