[protois at ensea.fr: NVIDIA and Privilege Separation]

[Ben Lindstrom]

I have no clue what he is talking about.  I'm running Mandrake Cooker w/
NVIDIA and the defaly OpenSSH 3.4p1 package from Mandrake and it works
just fine.

- Ben

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Niels Provos wrote:

> Does someone understand this?  I do not.
>
> Niels.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from laurent Protois <protois at ensea.fr> -----
>
> Subject: NVIDIA and Privilege Separation
> From: laurent Protois <protois at ensea.fr>
> To: provos at citi.umich.edu
> X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.7-1mdk
> Date: 10 Jul 2002 09:29:45 +0200
>
> Hi Niels,
>
> i have a little problem with openssh 3.4 and Nvidia kernel driver:
>
> On all my machines openssh 3.4 deamon run ok,
> except where NVIDIA kernel module (2960) had been install,sshd crash
> saying :
>
> users Privilege Separation does not exist ...
>
> NVIDIA and "Privilege Separation" doesn't seems
> to be compatible ???
>
> Graham Short <grahshrt at netscape.net> have noticed the problem too :
>
> I had "users Privilege Separation does not exist ..." too & I have an
> Nvidia card.
>
> Fixed it by erasing sshd (rpm --erase ...) and then re-installing it.
>
> Don't know what the cause was & didn't know it was related to Nvidia,
> but is working now on the latest RPM.
>
> Graham
>
> The packages i used are :
>
> NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2960.i386.rpm
> NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2960.mdk82up.i586.rpm
> openssh-3.4p1-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
>
> by today, i can't use drivers NVIDIA and openssh-3.4 together with
> Privilege Separation on my Mandrake 8.2 machines.
>
> if you have an idea ?
> Mandrake or Nvidia ?
>
> Thanks
>
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