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From: Houder <houder@xs4all.nl>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: openssh: privilege separation no longer supported on Cygwin? SURPRISE!
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 03:49:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eeafed231e0df1a879581f18e2067745@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <522816658.20170529225714@yandex.ru>

On 2017-05-29 21:57, Andrey Repin wrote:
> 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.

     http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/ssh/privsep.html

     
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/115896/can-someone-explain-how-sshd-does-privilege-separation

     https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-05/msg00468.html

>> 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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  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-29 20:30 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
2017-05-30  3:49         ` Houder [this message]
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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