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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:22:45 -0700
From: Greg Morgan <drkludge AT cox DOT net>
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CC: Colin JN Breame <colin AT breame DOT com>
Subject: Re: sshd privilege separation problem
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Colin JN Breame wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been running sshd and it recently stopped working.  I'm not sure 
> whether I did anything to it, but I've managed to track down the problem.
> 
> If I use privilege separation (ssh-host-config), as soon as I type the 
> password in, the message "Connection to localhost closed." is 
> displayed.  However, if I don't use privilege separation, everything 
> works as it should.  I've tried syncing the groups and passwd files with 
> no success.
> 
> This one is puzzling me; any ideas?

I experienced the same problem last Wednesday, 8/18.  I created a fresh 
local mirror with the enhanced mkcygwget script.  I didn't try to 
install sshd without using privilege separation.  I ran out of time.  I 
did try various clean install options, removing my known hosts files, 
etc.  I don't know if it matters but I did add one option to this 
install. I added the NFS package to my normal full installation of all 
packages.

I did find one oddity to what you report. I use scp daily.  The scp 
function works correctly with privilege separation while I received the 
"connection to localhost closed message" trying to ssh into the PC.

Greg

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