From: Charles Russell <worwor@bellsouth.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: sshd privsep user still required?
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 23:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <q1r1gr$794$1@blaine.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190117142307.GH4167@calimero.vinschen.de>
On 1/17/2019 8:23 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 16 15:31, Bill Stewart wrote:
>> I installed the OpenSSH server as a service using ssh-host-config, and all
>> is working.
>>
>> I'm running Windows 10 (1803).
>>
>> I renamed the sshd privilege separation (privsep) account to something else
>> and restarted the sshd service.
>>
>> Everything still works - no errors.
>>
>> Is the sshd disabled user account still required?
>
> No, actually it isn't. These days the sshd server checks if the
> the privsep chrrot environment should be used and that the process
> is started under "root:root". This never matches under Cygwin so
> we could drop the sshd user requirement.
>
> Patches to the installer script are very welcome.
>
>
> Corinna
>
Can the superfluous account be deleted without having to reinstall sshd?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-17 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-16 22:31 Bill Stewart
2019-01-17 14:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-01-17 23:04 ` Charles Russell [this message]
2019-03-12 22:21 ` Bill Stewart
2019-03-13 8:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-13 15:12 ` Bill Stewart
2019-03-13 15:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-13 15:58 ` Bill Stewart
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