>On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Tian He <hnhetian at gmail.com> wrote: >> I remembered somewhere I've seen that sshd user entry in /etc/passwd file, >> probably an older ver sion of Solaris OS. I wonder what's the use of that? > >http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/ssh/privsep.html >
We never used that part of sshd privsep on Solaris. (Instead, privset runs with reduced privileges) I'm assuming that a standard OpenSSH install was one on that system. Casper
