3.4p1 Error on Tru64 Unix - cannot set login uid

Stephen Smoogen smoogen at lanl.gov
Wed Oct 16 08:57:34 EST 2002


The True64 port does not support Privilege Separation at ALL. This seems
to be due to some of the complexities of True64's own security
mechanisms. From the emails I have read, there is no fix for this for
some time because of those limitations.

On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 05:44, Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote:
> Further input to this.
> 
> By explicitely setting UsePriviledgeSeparation no
> (default is #UsePrivilegeSeparate yes, assuming no as well), 
> I can now log on using ordinary user accounts.
> 
> In a way, I have managed to get round this problem, although
> I am not sure if this meant I am not running ssh-server in a more
> secure way.
> 
> Peter
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