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

[Tim Rice]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Frank Cusack wrote:

> 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

There was only a problem if the system had a broken (or didn't have) mmap.

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