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From: Glen Coakley <gcoakley AT mqsoftware DOT com>
To: "'Rick Rauenzahn'" <rick AT lanl DOT gov>,
        "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'"
	 <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: ssh and setuid root
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:08:09 -0600
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It sounds like sshd wants to be run only on a priveledged port (i.e. a port
number less than 1024). Are you trying to run it on a port higher then 1024?


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Rauenzahn [mailto:rick AT lanl DOT gov]
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 10:30 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: ssh and setuid root
> 
> 
> 
> There was a thread a while back concerning the ability to do
> RhostsRSA authentication on Cygwin/Openssh.  The question 
> centered on the ability to have the ssh client use a privileged port
> by running setuid root.  It seems that I currently cannot do that type
> of authentication.  Is there something that I am missing?  I am fairly
> sure that the known_hosts and .shosts files are OK, having done this
> between Unix boxes for quite some time.  sshd -d on the
> (Unix) server complains about the 'unprivileged port' > 1024 and won't
> let the desired authentication happen.
> 
>     Cygwin DLL version info:
>         dll major: 1001
>         dll minor: 8
>         dll epoch: 19
>         dll bad signal mask: 19005
>         dll old termios: 5
>         dll malloc env: 28
>         api major: 0
>         api minor: 34
>         shared data: 3
>         dll identifier: cygwin1
>         mount registry: 2
>         cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
>         cygwin registry name: Cygwin
>         program options name: Program Options
>         cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
>         cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
>         cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
>         cygdrive default prefix:
>         build date: Wed Jan 31 10:08:38 EST 2001
>         shared id: cygwin1S3
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> 
> 
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