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Re: How necessary is SSH_AUTH_SOCK?

Subject: Re: How necessary is SSH_AUTH_SOCK?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:11:51 +0200
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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