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

Tim Rice tim at multitalents.net
Wed May 29 13:41:09 EST 2002


On Wed, 29 May 2002, Mathias Koerber wrote:

> > > 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..

Sorry, don't know.

>
> rgds
>
>

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