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@@ -183,6 +183,21 @@ environment variable holds the agent's process ID.
183.Pp 183.Pp
184The agent exits automatically when the command given on the command 184The agent exits automatically when the command given on the command
185line terminates. 185line terminates.
186.Pp
187In Debian,
188.Nm
189is installed with the set-group-id bit set, to prevent
190.Xr ptrace 2
191attacks retrieving private key material.
192This has the side-effect of causing the run-time linker to remove certain
193environment variables which might have security implications for set-id
194programs, including
195.Ev LD_PRELOAD ,
196.Ev LD_LIBRARY_PATH ,
197and
198.Ev TMPDIR .
199If you need to set any of these environment variables, you will need to do
200so in the program executed by ssh-agent.
186.Sh FILES 201.Sh FILES
187.Bl -tag -width Ds 202.Bl -tag -width Ds
188.It Pa ~/.ssh/identity 203.It Pa ~/.ssh/identity