User id for the forwarder ports

[Esben Nielsen]

Den søndag den 3. januar 2016 skrev Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au>:

> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Esben Nielsen <nielsen.esben at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Can a TCP server (running on the same host as the OpenSSH server) know
> > the user id/name of a user forwarding an TCP port ?
> >
> > I.e. if someone on some client machine does
> >   ssh -L9999:localhost:9999 someuser at somehost
> >   nc localhost 9999
> > and a service accepts the connection on port localhost:9999 on
> > somehost, can it somehow safely read out the user name "someuser"?
>
> If sshd is running with PrivilegeSeparation (which it does by default)
> then the sshd for that connection will be running as "someuser".  On
> Linux, your application can figure out what that user is by calling
> getsockopt with SO_PEERCRED on the socket (there's example code in
>
> https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/tree/openbsd-compat/bsd-getpeereid.c
> )
>
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>
Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au)
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