[SOLVED] Re: Putty won't work when priv-sep turned on on AIX systems

[Frank Cusack]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:19:18PM +0100, Mark Janssen wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 01:40, Darren Tucker wrote:
> > Mark Janssen wrote:
> [problems with putty connecting to openssh on aix]
> 
> After a suggestion from Andrew Duggan this morning about possible
> problems regarding old/broken versions of libz. I knew I wasn't using
> the latest libz, so I looked into putty's settings and noticed that
> Compression was indeed turned on. When this was turned off it magically
> worked again.
> 
> I'll see if I can get a newer libz and turn compression back on, but for
> now, my problems are solved. Thanks for the suggestions/hints

Weren't there known problems with privsep and compression?  I don't recall
seeing any resolution, nor any commentary that it was related to version
of libz.  But, I certainly did not follow that closely.

/fc