Once upon a time, Jamie Zawinski <jwz@xxxxxxx> said: > Hmm, if I take off the setgid bit, I get the same behavior: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root nobody 58332 Sep 20 21:56 /usr/bin/ssh-agent > dr-x------ 2 root root 0 Dec 10 01:22 /proc/6039/fd > dr-xr-xr-x 3 jwz jwz 0 Dec 10 01:26 /proc/6039 It isn't actually supposed to be setgid on Linux; see ssh-agent.c: #if defined(HAVE_SYS_PRCTL_H) #include <sys/prctl.h> /* For prctl() and PR_SET_DUMPABLE */ #endif ... #if defined(HAVE_PRCTL) && defined(PR_SET_DUMPABLE) /* Disable ptrace on Linux without sgid bit */ prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 0); #endif -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
