On Sat Feb 01, 2003 at 12:17:05AM -0500, Scott Crumpler wrote: > I'm noticing some wierd behavior on the behalf of my OpenSSH daemon... When > it starts listening, there is only one instance of the process in memory. > But after I connect to it, there are 3 instances. Now I can understand 2 > instances (one to handle the connection and another one that forked off to > wait for the next connection). However, I can't think of why there would be > 3 instances. When I make 2 simultaneous connections, the number of sshd > processes becomes 5. > > Any ideas? Is something strange happening here?
One word: privsep. No time to discuss the details, you can find out about it in the openssh docs. But privsep is the "culprit" here and it's perfectly normal. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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