Openssh 3.0p1/Solaris 8 problems still...

[Christopher Linn]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 05:42:04PM -0800, Darren J Moffat wrote:
> 
> If you are running BSM auditing and have logged in using sshd and use
> crontab -e to update your crontab then because sshd does not properly
> setup the audit id for Solaris the .au file that cron uses to set the
> audit id before running the cron job will be corrupt, as a result cron
> will not run these jobs.
> 
> It is a known problem, part of the problem is sshd by not having support
> for setting up the BSM audit id is not a proper login service on Solaris
> and part of the problem is crontab -e not noticing that the audit id
> is invalid but still doing the update.


strangely, this feels like something i should have known  ;*)

thank you, darren.

chris

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