Nathan Angelacos wrote: > > >I'm curious about /etc/group modification? > > > >I've upgraded two (2) potato's and two (2) woody's. Yes, there is a > >new user in passwd/shadow; but, I do not have any new group for > >sshd. > > > >Yes, I have seen the instructions for installing manually; but, I > >cannot find a reason for the special group. > > > >What do you think? > > Good question. I wondered the same thing, figured "'cause Theo said > so.." and dismissed it. But after you asked, I checked the source... > :-) > > sshd.c in privsep_preauth_child does a setgid() from the sshd's > primary group (in passwd) when setting up the chroot jail. The > manual instructions make sure that the uid:gid is sshd:sshd. > So I guess "'cause Theo said so" works. :-) > > I'm curious though, on your debian systems, what is the gid for the > sshd user? The sshd.c source seems to indicate that sshd will fail > if the group doesn't exist.
Precisely my point! sshd is working without incident on all of these boxen. I thought the same as you, that this should fail of give me some kind of error log; but, I haven't found anything wrong and I've been using it for nearly a week now ;< How can I check which gid it's using, since once it's successfully logged in it resorts to root? What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek No, I will not fix your computer. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
