From owner-freebsd-security Sun Nov 1 21:16:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA07056 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 21:16:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA07012 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 21:16:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA20282; Mon, 2 Nov 1998 00:15:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 00:15:40 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Brett Glass cc: "Jan B. Koum " , Peter Jeremy , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSH vsprintf patch. (You've been warned Mr. Glass) In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981101213518.0462e910@127.0.0.1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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