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That's extremely dangerous. Any software running as a wheel user can escalate privileges willy nilly.

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they can also access your ssh private keys

In theory, those ssh private keys are password protected.

In practice, maybe not.

They were stored in the user’s yubikeys (or similar) in this example.

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0 pointsbdd8f1df777b1y ago0 comments

That's extremely dangerous. Any software running as a wheel user can escalate privileges willy nilly.

they can also access your ssh private keys

In theory, those ssh private keys are password protected.

In practice, maybe not.

They were stored in the user’s yubikeys (or similar) in this example.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse