OpenSSH 3.3 released

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed Jun 26 01:55:41 EST 2002


Once upon a time, Ben Lindstrom <mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org> said:
> You face the same issue that AIX does.
> 
> 1. we need to get session_setup_sia() into do_setusercontext().
> 2. Need to preallocate a tty since TTY allocation does not normally
> happen until WAY after privsep takes affect.
> 
> I think we could kill two birds with one stone if you look at how we can
> semi-cleanly handle pre-allocation of a TTY while we still have root.

Are you thinking about pre-allocating a TTY and then throwing it away if
it isn't needed?
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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