[PATCH]: Some fixes in contrib/cygwin/ssh-host-config

Tim Rice tim at multitalents.net
Mon Jul 8 07:08:36 EST 2002


Applied.

On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the attached patch changes the ssh-host-config script in the following
> way:
>
> - Actually exit if ssh processes are still running.  The "exit 1"
>   is commented out for testing purposes and I accidentally left it
>   this way when sending the patch to this list :-(
>
> - Create the Windows NT account "sshd" so that it's deactivated.
>   So even if the administrator(s) for some reason allow to login
>   w/o password, nobody can login to the sshd account.  This is
>   e. g. a problem on XP Home machines where login w/o password is
>   *gulp* a default setting.
>
> - Create the /etc/passwd entry for "sshd" so that the shell is set
>   to /bin/false instead of /bin/bash.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Corinna
>
[snip]

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