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authorKevin Steves <stevesk@pobox.com>2002-06-24 16:49:22 +0000
committerKevin Steves <stevesk@pobox.com>2002-06-24 16:49:22 +0000
commitd48663602d55d324aa4c5964b9782a876de0ff5b (patch)
tree8c772f7ac5db03acada74e27ee1f8ff99f936941 /README.privsep
parent34f0d8f4040c3fe55e3a69aa92d18482077dd202 (diff)
- (stevesk) [README.privsep] minor updates
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ On systems which lack mmap or anonymous (MAP_ANON) memory mapping,
compression must be disabled in order for privilege separation to
function.
-When privsep is enabled, the pre-authentication sshd process will
+When privsep is enabled, during the pre-authentication phase sshd will
chroot(2) to "/var/empty" and change its privileges to the "sshd" user
and its primary group. You should do something like the following to
prepare the privsep preauth environment:
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ prepare the privsep preauth environment:
# chown root:sys /var/empty
# chmod 755 /var/empty
# groupadd sshd
- # useradd -g sshd sshd
+ # useradd -g sshd -c 'sshd privsep' -d /var/empty sshd
If you are on UnixWare 7 or OpenUNIX 8 do this additional step.
# ln /usr/lib/.ns.so /usr/lib/ns.so.1
@@ -57,4 +57,4 @@ process 1005 is the sshd process listening for new connections.
process 6917 is the privileged monitor process, 6919 is the user owned
sshd process and 6921 is the shell process.
-$Id: README.privsep,v 1.7 2002/06/21 14:48:02 djm Exp $
+$Id: README.privsep,v 1.8 2002/06/24 16:49:22 stevesk Exp $