Dallas Clement wrote:
'm getting this error when I try to start my cross-compiled OpenSSH sshd
daemon for the first time with privilege separation enabled.
[...]
sshd uses getpwnam() to look up the privsep user, so if that doesn't
work (eg if your nsswitch.conf or equivalent is broken) then you can get
that error regardless of what's in /etc/passwd.
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