Re: Bug#189425: openssh: with default config, sshd fails on kernels other than Linux > 2.0

2003-04-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 04:49:53PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On the non-linux ports: note that priviledge separation is not supported > > on GNU, and will probably never be, since it has a different concept of > > user priviledges. > > I don't understand why. Privilege separation just require

Re: Bug#189425: openssh: with default config, sshd fails on kernels other than Linux > 2.0

2003-04-27 Thread Neal H. Walfield
> I don't understand why. Privilege separation just requires a separate > user and group which is used for processing network data, the ability > for sshd running as root to setuid(), setgid(), and setgroups() to that > user and group, and an empty chroot. I didn't think GNU was so different > that

Re: Bug#189425: openssh: with default config, sshd fails on kernels other than Linux > 2.0

2003-04-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 06:24:24PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Package: openssh > Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-17 > Severity: normal > > As noted in the debconf template: > > NB! If you are running a 2.0 series Linux kernel, then privilege > separation will not work at all, and yo