[Bug 296] Priv separation does not work on OSF/1

Corinna Vinschen vinschen at redhat.com
Wed Jun 26 07:24:10 EST 2002


On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:23:39PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 07:14:16PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > If I understand that correctly, privsep still works for preauth
> > then.  Is it correct that this doesn't create a second sshd
> > process?  At least I don't see one in the process list when
> > privsep is on and the above patch applied.
> 
> I have just observed this on FreeBSD 4.2 - during preauth, you can see
> two sshd processes, and as soon as the user is logged in, only one sshd
> daemon is left.  Confused the hell out of me ("is privsep now working or
> not?").

:-)  Thanks for the info.  I was a bit unsure as you might guess...

Corinna

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