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

Mathias Koerber mathias at koerber.org
Wed May 29 13:39:04 EST 2002


> > 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.

Thanks.

Do you know whether using prisep will make port forwarding
open forwarded ports as the authenticated user. Right now,
local forwards will be opened on the server as root, which
makes identd reports useless. This is my main purpose for
using (trying) privsep..

rgds





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