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Date:      Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:50:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>
To:        Niels Provos <provos@citi.umich.edu>
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UseLogin and openssh-portable priv separation
Message-ID:  <20020625084414.K310-100000@yez.hyperreal.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020625105312.GH15772@citi.citi.umich.edu>

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On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Niels Provos wrote:
> If you do UseLogin, that means that you will loose privilege
> separation after authentication.  The Pre-authentication phase is
> still privilege separated even with UseLogin enabled.

Right, I got that from the man page, but was still slightly unclear: does
using UseLogin remove the security that prevents the to-be-released
exploit from being exploitable?  Sounds like it does not remove that
security, *unless* the attack came from someone who successfully
authenticated, who could then get root?

	Brian



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