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List:       secure-shell
Subject:    Re: How necessary is SSH_AUTH_SOCK?
From:       Markus Friedl <markus.r.friedl () arcor ! de>
Date:       2006-09-29 9:11:51
Message-ID: 20060929091151.GB19994 () folly
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On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:17:17AM -0500, Steven Elliott wrote:
> So my question is - Why doesn't ssh-agent default the location of the
> socket file to some well known fixed secure location such
> $HOME/.ssh/agent? 

$HOME might be on a nfs server, so -a $HOME/.ssh/agent
is not the default.
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