Privilege separation

[Darren Tucker]

Logu wrote:
> I do not understand why there is a runtime option not to use privilege
> separation. What if the previlege separation is made compulsary.

Not all platforms and configurations work with privsep.  (Example:
*really* early Linuxes have a broken mmap(), so Compression isn't usable
with privilege separation.)

It also increases the memory footprint (2 sshd's per connection rather
than 1), this may make a difference on heavily-loaded or memory-starved
machines.

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