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diff --git a/README.privsep b/README.privsep index 460e9056..d658c46d 100644 --- a/README.privsep +++ b/README.privsep @@ -5,13 +5,10 @@ escalation by containing corruption to an unprivileged process. More information is available at: http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/ssh/privsep.html -Privilege separation is now enabled by default; see the -UsePrivilegeSeparation option in sshd_config(5). - -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. sshd is a pseudo-account that should not be -used by other daemons, and must be locked and should contain a +Privilege separation is now mandatory. During the pre-authentication +phase sshd will chroot(2) to "/var/empty" and change its privileges to the +"sshd" user and its primary group. sshd is a pseudo-account that should +not be used by other daemons, and must be locked and should contain a "nologin" or invalid shell. You should do something like the following to prepare the privsep |