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RE: ssh and setuid root
- To: 'Rick Rauenzahn' <rick at lanl dot gov>, "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: ssh and setuid root
- From: Glen Coakley <gcoakley at mqsoftware dot com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 11:08:09 -0600
It sounds like sshd wants to be run only on a priveledged port (i.e. a port
number less than 1024). Are you trying to run it on a port higher then 1024?
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Glen Coakley, Sr. Software Engineer
MQSoftware Inc., (763) 543-4845
Have you ever wonder what happens when you run "rm -rf / " but been afraid
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Rauenzahn [mailto:rick@lanl.gov]
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 10:30 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: ssh and setuid root
>
>
>
> There was a thread a while back concerning the ability to do
> RhostsRSA authentication on Cygwin/Openssh. The question
> centered on the ability to have the ssh client use a privileged port
> by running setuid root. It seems that I currently cannot do that type
> of authentication. Is there something that I am missing? I am fairly
> sure that the known_hosts and .shosts files are OK, having done this
> between Unix boxes for quite some time. sshd -d on the
> (Unix) server complains about the 'unprivileged port' > 1024 and won't
> let the desired authentication happen.
>
> Cygwin DLL version info:
> dll major: 1001
> dll minor: 8
> dll epoch: 19
> dll bad signal mask: 19005
> dll old termios: 5
> dll malloc env: 28
> api major: 0
> api minor: 34
> shared data: 3
> dll identifier: cygwin1
> mount registry: 2
> cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
> cygwin registry name: Cygwin
> program options name: Program Options
> cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
> cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
> cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
> cygdrive default prefix:
> build date: Wed Jan 31 10:08:38 EST 2001
> shared id: cygwin1S3
>
> Rick
>
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