PrivSep and portability

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 10:26:50PM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 03:05:51PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:38:11AM -0800, Kevin Steves wrote:
> > > we currently support access rights and ancillary data fd passing.  we
> > 
> > Interesting. If you're passing creds that must mean that you're allowing
> > the unpriviledged sshd child to be root sometimes. 
> 
> why?

Oh, never mind. As I think more, you must be starting the child as
nobody and later passing the authenticated user's uid/gids. I get it.

Nico
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