AIX remote root logins

[Ben Lindstrom]

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Darren Tucker wrote:

> Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> > You're better off using the patch by Dr Jorg Petersen on:
> >
> > http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383
> >
> > The more I think about it..The more I agree with it, but I've not had the
> > time to look into it.
>
> On the subject of that line of code: loginrestrictions will always fail
> when run as a non-root user (unless the user is member of group
> "security"). This also means the regression tests won't work without
> sudo.
>

This kinda touches on another question that was brough up for AIX and a
few other platforms.  Is is valid to allow sshd to run as a non-root
user?

I'm skimming around in the code, and there is presidence for this type of
change.  Is this the only thing tripping OpenSSH from running the as
non-root for AIX for regression?

- Ben