On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Ben Reser wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:59:37AM +0200, Oden Eriksson wrote: > > Great! Is it system wide or per user (root) based? > > > > Oh.., I found another missing file in the openssh package (+ some minor > > fixes), a patch is attached. > > Dumb question but why are we using /var/empty/sshd? /var/empty just > needs to be an empty directory with nothing in it. ssh chroot's to it > so that it doesn't have access to anything as root. No reason why other > apps couldn't share this directory.
/var/empty/sshd is the default chroot of the privsep'd sshd instance, and comes stock with the source of 3.3p1
