AIX remote root logins

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Mon Oct 14 10:15:07 EST 2002


On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 14:03, Ben Lindstrom wrote:

> 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?

Yes - this can be done. It is quite useful for regress tests:

ssh -o ProxyCommand="sshd -i" blah

This doesn't work for PAM enabled builds.

-d



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