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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:59:44 -0500
From: Peter Buckley <peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com>
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To: swamp-dog AT ntlworld DOT com
CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: sshd and fstat
References: <3c46d28e DOT 857705044 AT post DOT ntlworld DOT com>

IIRC, SYSTEM should be the owner of the keys. And it is highly 
recommended that the service be run as SYSTEM. Check out 
http://tech.erdelynet.com for more info on the permissions for the key 
files etc.

HTH,
Peter

Guy Harrison wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Not knowing anything about SSH I didn't realise openssh-3.0.2p1-4 (and
> former) versions shouldn't have been asking for a password with the
> correct keys at either end. I assumed I'd got something in a mess. It
> appears not.
> 
> In the end I compiled openssh so I could get a bit more information on
> the failure.
> 
> <snippet auth.c>
> int
> secure_filename(FILE *f, const char *file, struct passwd *pw,
>     char *err, size_t errlen)
> {
> 	uid_t uid = pw->pw_uid;
> 	char buf[MAXPATHLEN], homedir[MAXPATHLEN];
> 	char *cp;
> 	struct stat st;
> int zzz;
> 	if (realpath(file, buf) == NULL) {
> 		snprintf(err, errlen, "realpath %s failed: %s", file,
> 		    strerror(errno));
> 		return -1;
> 	}
> 	if (realpath(pw->pw_dir, homedir) == NULL) {
> 		snprintf(err, errlen, "realpath %s failed: %s",
> pw->pw_dir,
> 		    strerror(errno));
> 		return -1;
> 	}
> log("realpath=[%s][%s]",buf,homedir);
> 	/* check the open file to avoid races */
> zzz = fstat(fileno(f), &st);
> log("st_uid=[%d] pw_uid=[%d]",st.st_uid,uid);
> 	if ((zzz < 0) ||
> 	    (st.st_uid != 0 && st.st_uid != uid) ||
> 	    (st.st_mode & 022) != 0) {
> 		snprintf(err, errlen, "bad ownership or modes for file
> %s",
> 		    buf);
> 		return -1;
> 	}
> <snippet /auth.c>
> 
> When run as a service sshd is emitting...
> 
> The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/sshd.exe )
> could not be found. It contains the following insertion string(s):
> /usr/sbin/sshd.exe : Win32 Process Id = 0x1B0 : Cygwin Process Id =
> 0x1B0 : debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 500/513 (e=18).
> 
> The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/sshd.exe )
> could not be found. It contains the following insertion string(s):
> /usr/sbin/sshd.exe : Win32 Process Id = 0x1B0 : Cygwin Process Id =
> 0x1B0 :
> realpath=[/home/Administrator/.ssh/authorized_keys][/home/Administrator].
> 
> The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/sshd.exe )
> could not be found. It contains the following insertion string(s):
> /usr/sbin/sshd.exe : Win32 Process Id = 0x1B0 : Cygwin Process Id =
> 0x1B0 : st_uid=[18] pw_uid=[500].
> 
> The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/sshd.exe )
> could not be found. It contains the following insertion string(s):
> /usr/sbin/sshd.exe : Win32 Process Id = 0x1B0 : Cygwin Process Id =
> 0x1B0 : Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for file
> /home/Administrator/.ssh/authorized_keys.
> 
> Seems to think authorized_keys is owned by SYSTEM:18 but it isn't.
> Stopping sshd as a service and running from within bash "sshd -d" works
> fine and emits...
> 
> debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 500/513 (e=500)
> debug1: trying public RSA key file
> /home/Administrator/.ssh/authorized_keys
> realpath=[/home/Administrator/.ssh/authorized_keys][/home/Administrator]
> st_uid=[500] pw_uid=[500]
> debug1: restore_uid
> Accepted rsa for Administrator from 192.168.0.1 port 2446
> 
> ...which isn't the end of it. I fired up a bash shell, launched from a
> service with SYSTEM authority expecting a failure...
> 
> debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 500/513 (e=18)
> debug1: trying public key file /home/Administrator/.ssh/authorized_keys
> realpath=[/home/Administrator/.ssh/authorized_keys][/home/Administrator]
> st_uid=[500] pw_uid=[500]
> 
> ...but it worked, both as "sshd -d" and as a straight "sshd" (so it
> forked in case that was it).
> 
> fstat will only fail when sshd is running as a service as SYSTEM. The
> only viable approach I can think of at this point is to attach gdb to
> the process forked by sshd and I can't for the life of me figure out how
> to do that. I hope this info is useful to you folks with more intimate
> knowledge 'cos I'm stuck! :-|
> 
> 
> 


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