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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 17:07:51 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: OpenSSH-3.9p1-1, mysterious -r option, and documented steps to resolve "Connection to host closed." message was sshd privilege separation problem
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On Aug 28 15:13, Reini Urban wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
> >On Aug 27 22:29, Greg Morgan wrote:
> >>More on why I selected "tty ntsec" 
> >>http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html.  It has always worked.
> >
> >These are useless.  Since ssh sessions are running in a pty, they are
> >in "tty" mode anyway, "ntsec" is on by default.
> 
> just "ntea" should be turned on (unless its win95), because it should be 

NOOOO!  ntea is old crap and has *nothing* to do with real security.
It's just plain fake.  It's not even used if ntsec is in use, only if
ntsec is explicitely switched off.


Corinna

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