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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Houder <houder@xs4all.nl>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: openssh: privilege separation no longer supported on Cygwin? SURPRISE!
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 20:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <522816658.20170529225714@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b16023ad6735108510ae351a8378a420@xs4all.nl>

Greetings, Houder!

>   - however, the userid of the grandchild of the sshd listener, is STILL
>     cyg_server ... NOT sshd!

Exactly. cyg_server is the user which does impersonation.
You've been told that when you've been setting up your host.

> As if the "sshd" account is NEVER, NEVER used during the _whole_ process
> (that is, there is NO privilege separation, as far as I can tell).

As far as it is documented.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, May 29, 2017 22:56:04

Sorry for my terrible english...


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  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-29 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-29  6:40 openssh: privilege separation no longer supported on Cygwin? Houder
2017-05-29  9:22 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-05-29 11:39   ` Houder
2017-05-29 11:44     ` openssh: privilege separation no longer supported on Cygwin? -- example only Houder
2017-05-29 14:29     ` openssh: privilege separation no longer supported on Cygwin? Houder
2017-05-29 17:45     ` openssh: privilege separation no longer supported on Cygwin? SURPRISE! Houder
2017-05-29 20:30       ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2017-05-30  3:49         ` Houder
2017-05-30 16:16       ` Houder
2017-05-31  4:58         ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2017-05-31 10:51           ` Houder
2017-05-31 14:46             ` cyg Simple
2017-05-31 14:57               ` Houder
2017-05-31 14:59                 ` openssh: privilege separation no longer supported on Cygwin? SURPRISE! -- minor correction Houder
2017-05-31 16:34                 ` openssh: privilege separation no longer supported on Cygwin? SURPRISE! cyg Simple
2017-05-31 19:52                   ` Houder
2017-05-31 20:16                     ` cyg Simple
2017-06-01  2:27             ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2017-05-31 20:20     ` openssh: privilege separation no longer supported on Cygwin? Marco Atzeri

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