From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: 18967@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18967: Tramp disables important SSH security features
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 07:05:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874muczg8b.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <545AC52C.1090807@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:47:40 +0000")
On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:47:40 +0000 Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> wrote:
DC> Tramp disables SSH host key checks by setting
DC> GlobalKnownHostsFile=/dev/null, UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null, and
DC> StrictHostKeyChecking=no in its default method configuration. These
DC> settings allow attackers to intercept connections to remote hosts, sniff
DC> passwords, and cause other mischief. I don't think we should ship an
DC> insecure configuration.
I think the alternatives are something like what Ansible does:
http://www.ansible.com/blog/2014/01/15/ssh-connection-upgrades-coming-in-ansible-1-5
or a SSH client library as a FFI. SSH, when called externally, has many
failure modes without those options.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-06 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-06 0:47 bug#18967: Tramp disables important SSH security features Daniel Colascione
2014-11-06 12:05 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2014-11-06 16:58 ` Daniel Colascione
2014-11-06 20:59 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-11-06 23:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-07 7:56 ` Michael Albinus
2016-12-13 1:12 ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-13 8:36 ` Michael Albinus
2016-12-13 20:04 ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-18 8:51 ` Michael Albinus
2016-12-19 17:02 ` Glenn Morris
2016-12-19 18:37 ` Michael Albinus
2016-12-21 11:44 ` Michael Albinus
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