Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 00:15:40 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSH vsprintf patch. (You've been warned Mr. Glass) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9811020014040.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981101213518.0462e910@127.0.0.1>
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On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Brett Glass wrote: > What does this argument do? (Yes, I've already applied patches and also > replaced a few sprintf()s. The client is installed suid root (for various reasons). The option in question disables this behavior. As sshd is binding and listening to a port below 1024 it must run as root. The alleged problem with sshd lies in the code that logs connections etc. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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