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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/README.privsep b/README.privsep index dd8069a7..ced943f2 100644 --- a/README.privsep +++ b/README.privsep @@ -14,14 +14,18 @@ function. 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: +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 +preauth environment: # mkdir /var/empty # chown root:sys /var/empty # chmod 755 /var/empty # groupadd sshd - # useradd -g sshd -c 'sshd privsep' -d /var/empty sshd + # useradd -g sshd -c 'sshd privsep' -d /var/empty -s /bin/false sshd /var/empty should not contain any files. @@ -54,4 +58,4 @@ 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 1.9 2002/06/26 00:25:48 tim Exp $ +$Id: README.privsep,v 1.10 2002/06/26 00:43:57 stevesk Exp $ |