Re: Running sshd as normal user

As it was written on Aug 8, thus Werner Schalk spake unto SecureShell:

Werner:  Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 12:13:07 +0200
Werner:  From: Werner Schalk 
Werner:  To: secureshell@securityfocus.com
Werner:  Subject: Running sshd as normal user
Werner:
Werner:  Hi,
Werner:
Werner:  I have installed the OpenSSH-daemon (3.6.1p1) with the chroot-patch from
Werner:  chrootssh.sourceforge.net (yes I know 3.6.1p1 is not the latest!).
Werner:
Werner:  My question now is: How can I run the sshd under a normal user account that I
Werner:  created for this purpose?
Werner:
Werner:  I have already searched the man page and google but I wasn't able to find a
Werner:  suitable solution. Is there a command line option I can pass to the
Werner:  /usr/sbin/sshd?
Werner:
Werner:  Bye and thanks,
Werner:  Werner.

Inside of your sshd config file, re-number the PORT to be a number higher than 1024 (ie: 2222). Since you are running sshd as a non-root user, you can only bind to a port higher than 1024.

 Thanks

 Scott Birl
 Senior Systems Administrator Computer Services Temple University ====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====+====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====* Received on Fri Aug 8 15:25:02 2003