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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2001 23:45:08 -0700
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
To:        dmiller@sparks.net
Cc:        jolly@gibbon.kungfumonkey.com, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.3R and ssh problems
Message-ID:  <20010522234508P.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105221653390.50961-100000@search.sparks.net>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.30.0105221648100.24883-100000@gibbon.kungfumonkey.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105221653390.50961-100000@search.sparks.net>

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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 <dmiller@sparks.net>
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
> 
> 
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