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authorGravatar Keegan McAllister <mcallister.keegan@gmail.com>2012-04-12 00:43:23 -0400
committerGravatar Keegan McAllister <mcallister.keegan@gmail.com>2012-04-12 21:53:02 -0700
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packages for many operating systems, as well as instructions for building
from source.
+ Note that `mosh-client` receives an AES session key as an environment
+ variable. If you are porting Mosh to a new operating system, please make
+ sure that a running process's environment variables are not readable by other
+ users. We have confirmed that this is the case on GNU/Linux, OS X, and
+ FreeBSD.
+
Usage
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