"Julius C. Duque" wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Li, Alice wrote:
>
> > 1. When user successfully authenticated and login the system, will the
> > process belong to root or belong to the user?
>
> An ssh daemon (sshd) runs on the server side to accept (or deny)
> secure authentication. Its ownership does not depend on whoever
> gets to logged in successfully.
>
> When a user logs in to the system, sshd determines whether to allow that
> user or not. A successful ssh login is the same as a successful telnet
> login, except for the added encryption. So, when a user logs in via ssh,
> his process belongs to him.
>
When a user telnet's into a box, on OS-level, the owner of the process is the user
himself.
This is not the case with SSH, the owner of the user-process is root.
Noella Pierlet
system administrator
