Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-4.4p1-1 [WARNING]

[Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>]

* Corinna Vinschen (Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:46:40 +0200)
> I've just updated the version of OpenSSH to 4.4p1-1.
> 
> This is a new major upstream release.  The Cygwin release is created
> from the vanilla sources.

For those upgrading from a previous version a warning should be 
issued: if you're not using "privilege separation" your sshd is likely 
not going to start again. The reason is that even though you're not 
using "privilege separation" (and therefor don't have a "sshd" user 
account) the sshd account is now /required/:

,--- * ChangeLog
| 20060907
| NB. this change will require that the privilege separation user must
|     exist on all the time, not just when UsePrivilegeSeparation=yes
`---

Thorsten


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