UsePrivilegeSeparation: "fatal: xrealloc: out of memory"

Thu Jun 27 10:32:20 EST 2002

I just upgraded to OpenSSH 3.4p1 from 2.5.2p2 to take advantage of
privilege separation.  After installation, when a user tries to login
he gets dropped almost immediately.  In the server's
/var/log/messages:

Jun 26 20:15:04 sclp3 sshd[6433]: Accepted password for jason from 128.165.148.66 port 41871 ssh2
Jun 26 20:15:12 sclp3 jason[110]: sshd[6444]: fatal: xrealloc: out of memory (new_size 5566464 bytes)

The server is running BSD/OS 4.0, whose mmap(2) seems to indicate that
it supports anonymous (MAP_ANON) memory mapping.  I've created
/var/empty and a sshd user and group.

Setting "UsePrivilegeSeparation no" in sshd_config clears up this
problem, but I'd rather not have to disable this.  Any ideas?

Thanks.

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