Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:21:23 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: reexec'ing problem solved (was Re: upgrading openssh 3.8.1p1-1 -> 3.9p1-1 breaks privilege separation) Message-ID: <20040819112123.GB11920@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <87n00siknk.fsf@beth.swift.xxx> <20040818152348.GI10590@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040818152348.GI10590@cygbert.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Aug 18 17:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 18 10:30, Matt Swift wrote: > > I've verified on two machines running XP Pro with up-to-date Cygwin > > installations that upgrading from openssh 3.8.1p1-1 to openssh 3.9p1-1 > > breaks sshd when running with privilege separation (the default). > > [...] > As a temporary measure, please add the -r option when starting sshd. > I haven't found the exact culprit so far, but the above flag will help. > > Thanks for the report. It's embarassing that I didn't find the error > myself since I had accidentally switched off privilege separation a few > days ago :-( I found the culprit. It's a miscalculation bug in Cygwin which happens when dup'ing sockets. I've checked in a fix. For the impatient, you can try the latest developers snapshot from http://www.cygwin.com/snapshots/ Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/