On fredagen den 9 augusti 2002 16.28 Vincent Danen wrote:
> On Fri Aug 09, 2002 at 07:33:09PM -0400, Oden Eriksson wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > > The last problem _was_ with privsep disabled. It still does not work.
> > > > Sorry to ask but have you tested it? Chage user, set password change
> > > > time in the past and try to log in (using public key as in my case).
> > >
> > > Yup, you're absolutely right.  The way privsep is written changes the
> > > way the whole pam interaction is done.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, there is no easy way around this except to downgrade to
> > > a pre-3.3p1 version.  =(
> >
> > Or perhaps just ignore the privsep bsd shit and continue as before?, the
> > huge security hole is gone anyway...
>
> That's the problem.. you can't.  Disabling privsep doesn't remove it
> from the code.  The introduction of privsep changed some of the
> fundamental code in openssh; as it's been pointed out before, password
> aging just doesn't work period in openssh right now, regardless of
> whether privsep is enabled or not.  So, to continue on as before,
> would be to downgrade openssh to a pre-privsep version.

Yes I just checked the code and it's pretty hard to remove it, and theo would 
probably not approve ;)

I also checked in their bugzilla, and there's not much regarding this privsep 
bug at all in there from what I could tell.

-- 
Regards // Oden Eriksson
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