Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:56:23 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <dmiller@sparks.net> To: Jacob Frelinger <jolly@gibbon.kungfumonkey.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.3R and ssh problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105221653390.50961-100000@search.sparks.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0105221648100.24883-100000@gibbon.kungfumonkey.com>
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On Tue, 22 May 2001, Jacob Frelinger wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2001, David Miller wrote: > > > I will check into this, but authentication through the .shosts file has > > worked "forever", and if the only solution is a new authentication > > mechanism we've broken compatibility with a lot of existing apps. > > > > --- David > > well colour me schooled. I've never used ssh with .shosts, only key based > auth. but a quick search on the net proves your right. (and actualy a > possible solution). i found several documents refering to .shosts > authentication that stated ssh must be installed suid to get a privelaged > port, for .shosts authentication to work, and by default ssh isn't > installed as suid on freebsd (though setting ENABLE_SUID_SSH=true in > make.conf will install it as sutch) chmod 4555 /usr/bin/ssh let it work too, so now I'm OK. Hopefully anyone else who runs into the problem will search the stable archive, but I always worry when defaults change. Thanks to all who answered so quickly:) --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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