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Re: sshd privilege separation problem
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: Colin JN Breame <colin at breame dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:23:25 -0400
- Subject: Re: sshd privilege separation problem
- References: <412CFACE.4010407@breame.com>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 04:47 PM 8/25/2004, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've been running sshd and it recently stopped working. I'm not sure whether I did anything to it, but I've managed to track down the problem.
>
>If I use privilege separation (ssh-host-config), as soon as I type the password in, the message "Connection to localhost closed." is displayed. However, if I don't use privilege separation, everything works as it should. I've tried syncing the groups and passwd files with no success.
>
>This one is puzzling me; any ideas?
Sure. Read the list. ;-)
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00625.html>
is the best thread on the subject, though there are others.
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