Openssh 3.0p1/Solaris 8 problems still...

Christopher Linn celinn at mtu.edu
Thu Nov 15 01:13:14 EST 2001


On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:50:18PM -0500, James M Moya wrote:
> Currently under solaris 8 with a fairly generic build:
[...]
> cron will quit working since ssh hasn't doesn't have auditing support
> just right
[...]
> --mike

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.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 08:47:45PM +0100, Markus Friedl wrote:
> how should openssh do this? do you have code examples?


OK, i am curious; does SSH.Com handle this properly?  if so, is the 
proper code only in the commercial version?

chris

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