Subject: Re: SSHD/
From: [email-masked]
To: "Max Bowsher" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:39:35 +0100

>From: "Max Bowsher" <[email-masked]>
>Date: 05/02/2003 18.04.07
>Subject: Re: SSHD/
>
>[email-masked] wrote:
>> $ ssh-host-config -y
>> chmod: changing permissions of `/var/empty': Permission denied
>
>Worth investigating this.
$ ls -l /var
total 0
drwxr-xr-x+   2 SYSTEM   SYSTEM          0 Feb  4 17:02 empty

Permissions are already OK.

>
>> Privilege separation is set to yes by default since OpenSSH 3.3.
>> However, this requires a non-privileged account called 'sshd'.
>
>Does such an account exist? (In Windows and in /etc/passwd).
marco@hki-mar-2000 ~
$ less /etc/passwd|grep sshd
sshd:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1004:513:sshd 
privsep,U-HKI-MAR-2000\sshd,S-1-5-21-1614895754-507921405-839522115-1004:/var/empty:/bin/false

User sshd exists also in Control Panel - Users and Passwords and has been 
installed by the CygWin script as a Restricted User (Win2000 definition is 
"Users can operate the computer and save documents, but cannot install 
programs or make potentially damaging changes to the system files and 
settings")

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>Max.
>

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