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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:23:48 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: upgrading openssh 3.8.1p1-1 -> 3.9p1-1 breaks privilege separation
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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).
> Clients (including "ssh localhost") can not log into the Cygwin sshd.
> Either turning off privilege separation in /etc/sshd_config or
> downgrading and rebooting resolves the problem.
> 
> I have no further insight into this problem; I mainly want just to report it.

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 :-(


Corinna

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