Re: Updated: OpenSSH-4.4p1-1

[Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 13 11:20, Charles Wilson wrote
> > This is bad.  Suppose I am a cygwin user on a machine to which I do not 
> > have Administrator privileges.  Until now, I could run a personal sshd 
> > on a unique port, and connect back to my windows box.  Now I can't -- 
> > because, as a non-Admin, I can't create the sshd user.  (and this use 
> > case is not a hypothetical; I do this on the job often)
>
> You can create a fake sshd account in /etc/passwd, using your own account.
> Other than that, I agree.  It's not exactly a nice change.

Okay, that's good to know -- we have a workaround for cygwin (assuming I 
have write-access to /etc/passwd...)  I still think this could cause 
issues for non-priveleged uses on other platforms, tho.  But that's a 
topic for another list.

--
Chuck



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