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

[Damien Miller]

Frank Cusack wrote:
> 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.

We would disable compression if the OS lacked certain capabilities which 
privsep needed to support it - there were no reliability issues IIRC.

-d