Problems with UsePrivilegeSeparation (was: port fwd as user != root?

[Tim Rice]

On Wed, 29 May 2002, Mathias Koerber wrote:

> > Please try the attached patch. It tests for a working mmap that
> > supports MAP_ANONYMOUS. You'll need autoconf 2.52 installed
> > Run autoreconf after applying the patch.
> >
> > If you don't have autoconf 2.52 installed,
> > grab the new configure from
> > 	http://www.multitalents.net/openssh/configure-map-anon.gz
> > or
> > 	ftp://ftp.multitalents.net/pub/openssh/configure-map-anon.gz
> > and add the following line to config.h.in
> > #undef HAVE_MMAP
> That line was already there..
>
> With the patch (against 3.2.p1), I always get this error:
>
> fatal: mm_create: UsePrivilegeSeparation=yes not supported

So it found your mmap was not working, good.

Without a working version of mmap that supports MAP_ANON,
privsep is NOT supported (yet). Sorry.
I'm working on it.

>
> rgds
>

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