Privilege Separation after kernel upgrade

Hi all,

I noticed strange problem after installing the 2.4.18-3BOOT kernel on RedHatLinux 7.2, concerning privsep. When privsep is turned on, users cannot log in, but root is allowed. In the messages log appears following:

Nov  6 15:56:31 host sshd[11337]: fatal: mm_send_fd: UsePrivilegeSeparation=yes not supported
Nov  6 15:56:31 host sshd[11337]: syslogin_perform_logout: logout() returned an error
Nov  6 15:56:31 host sshd[11341]: fatal: mm_receive_fd: UsePrivilegeSeparation=yes not supported

I laso tried to edit config.h to disable system mmap, but with no success to solve this issue.

Problems are with both OpenSSH 3.4p1 and 3.5p1.

Cannot upgrade to 2.4.18-17BOOT kernel because of third-party modules.

Does anybody know what the messages mean ?

Thanks,

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  David Komanek Received on Sat Nov 9 00:59:50 2002