README.privsep

[Tim Rice]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Kevin Steves wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If you are on UnixWare 7 or OpenUNIX 8 do this additional step.
> 	# ln /usr/lib/.ns.so /usr/lib/ns.so.1

Drop these two lines. If we are not going to do something like the patch
below to fix the initgroups problem on UnixWare and some Linux, then
add some lines like

On UnixWare, OpenUNIX, and some Linux systems you will have to
	# mkdir /var/empty/etc
	# touch /var/empty/etc/group


--- session.c.orig	Mon Jun 24 07:29:13 2002
+++ session.c	Mon Jun 24 18:49:49 2002
@@ -1180,6 +1180,7 @@
 			exit(1);
 		}
 		/* Initialize the group list. */
+		if (strcmp(pw->pw_name, SSH_PRIVSEP_USER))
 		if (initgroups(pw->pw_name, pw->pw_gid) < 0) {
 			perror("initgroups");
 			exit(1);

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