Re: fatal: mm_receive_fd

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:30:28PM -0600, you [David Sims] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks. I have built this using the configure flag --with-md5-passwords

If you are running openssh-3.4p or openssh-3.5p on linux kernel 2.0.x, privilege separation doesn't work. If you try to enable it, you get the quoted error message. (AFAICR linux-2.0.x leaves one field uninitialized in unix domain socket code, and openssh tries to check it, hence the error.)

There was a patch for this on this list when 3.4 was released - I'm not sure if it was good, and why it wasn't integrated.

Your can turn of privilege separation from sshd_config, it'll work then.

(If you are not running linux 2.0.x, then I don't know what the problem is.)

> > On Tue Nov 26 08:32:19 PM, David Sims wrote:

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v@iki.fi Received on Mon Dec 2 10:06:45 2002

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