Privsep (was 6.9 testing)

[Darren Tucker]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Scott Neugroschl <scott_n at xypro.com> wrote:

>
> On Sunday, May 31, 2015 4:03 PM, Darren Tucker wrote:
>
> > The privsep chroot path is specified at build time (./configure
> --with-privsep-path if you want to change it).
>
> I'm still trying to figure out why this, along with the privsep user, is a
> compile time option instead of an sshd_config option
>

Because it's not something you need to change very much and fewer knobs is
better, especially in security critical parts like the pre-auth chroot.

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