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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:08:22 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-3.9p1-1
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On Aug 18 09:57, Karl M wrote:
> Hi All...
> 
> I didn't find -r in the man page. I have not had time to scan the sources 
> :-(
> 
> What does it do?

Switching off reexec'ing.

Corinna

> [...]
> >* Make sshd(8) re-execute itself on accepting a new connection. This 
> >security
> >  measure ensures that all execute-time randomisations are reapplied for 
> >each
> >  connection rather than once, for the master process' lifetime. This 
> >includes
> >  mmap and malloc mappings, shared library addressing, shared library 
> >mapping
> >  order, ProPolice and StackGhost cookies on systems that support such 
> >things

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