From owner-freebsd-doc Tue May 22 23:45:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC4737B422 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 23:45:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4N6j8812263; Tue, 22 May 2001 23:45:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) To: dmiller@sparks.net Cc: jolly@gibbon.kungfumonkey.com, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.3R and ssh problems In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010522234508P.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 23:45:08 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 38 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We probably need to add this to the FAQ, actually. Any doc'ers willing to write something up and commit it? - Jordan From: David Miller Subject: Re: 4.3R and ssh problems Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:56:23 -0400 (EDT) > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message