On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 12 01:11, Robert McKay wrote: > > In order to run sshd as an unprivileged user I had to use a nasty > > hexedit hack on the sshd.exe file to replace the seteuid() call (which > > fails / returns -1 without admin privileges and causes sshd to exit) > > with a call to isalpha() which has (almost) the same function > > prototype, but always returns 0 unless your userid 'is an alphanumeric > > charater' :) > > Aaaaargh! > > I don't know what you're doing wrong but this is *totally* unnecessary. > You can run sshd as unprivileged user without having to change the > sshd code. You can do this while another sshd is running on > port 22 under a privileged account. What the user has to do is to create > her own sshd_config file and own host keys. If no other sshd is running > on the machine, just chown the host key files in /etc and switch off > privilege separation in /etc/sshd_config.
Interesting.. are you sure your account doesn't have the allow replace process token privilege? I'll take another look this when I get the chance.. perhaps sshd has changed in some way. Cheers, Rob. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
