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		inferiorhuman on Jan 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Systemd as tragedy > How else do you propose to make sure that when I log off my ssh-agent is really terminated and not just locked up with my keys still in memory? Perhaps with a signal handler?

pas on Jan 30, 2019 [–]

That was the nice and friendly POSIX way, turns out it's really convenient for malware to stick around that way. Now user session isolation and termination works (cgroups), but it of course breaks backward comp.

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