Fwd: privsep in ssh

Damien Miller djm at shitei.mindrot.org
Mon Sep 22 15:44:58 EST 2003



> #ifdef DISABLE_FD_PASSING
>         if (1) {
> #else
>         if (authctxt->pw->pw_uid == 0 || options.use_login) {
> #endif

I think we should change this test to something like:

if (!ALWAYS_POSTAUTH_PRIVSEP && 
    (authctxt->pw->pw_uid == 0 || options.use_login || 
    NEVER_POSTAUTH_PRIVSEP)) {

Then we can set NEVER_POSTAUTH_PRIVSEP and ALWAYS_POSTAUTH_PRIVSEP (to 1) 
in autoconf as appropriate.

Comments?

-d




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