OpenSSH 3.3 released

Ben Lindstrom mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org
Wed Jun 26 02:30:26 EST 2002


I truely don't know how SIA works.. If you feed it a real TTY but in the
end never use it does it cause problems?  How about if you feed it no TTY
and you really are using a TTY?

If you can get by with the latter concept for the time being that would
simplify your diff and be faster.

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Chris Adams wrote:

> 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?
> --
> Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
>




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