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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next prev parent 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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