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diff --git a/README.privsep b/README.privsep index f565e72da929..2120544c7973 100644 --- a/README.privsep +++ b/README.privsep @@ -8,10 +8,6 @@ More information is available at: Privilege separation is now enabled by default; see the UsePrivilegeSeparation option in sshd_config(5). -On systems which lack mmap or anonymous (MAP_ANON) memory mapping, -compression must be disabled in order for privilege separation to -function. - When privsep is enabled, during the pre-authentication phase sshd will chroot(2) to "/var/empty" and change its privileges to the "sshd" user and its primary group. sshd is a pseudo-account that should not be @@ -35,9 +31,6 @@ privsep user and chroot directory: --with-privsep-path=xxx Path for privilege separation chroot --with-privsep-user=user Specify non-privileged user for privilege separation -Privsep requires operating system support for file descriptor passing. -Compression will be disabled on systems without a working mmap MAP_ANON. - PAM-enabled OpenSSH is known to function with privsep on AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX (including Trusted Mode), Linux, NetBSD and Solaris. @@ -59,5 +52,3 @@ Given the following process listing (from HP-UX): process 1005 is the sshd process listening for new connections. process 6917 is the privileged monitor process, 6919 is the user owned sshd process and 6921 is the shell process. - -$Id: README.privsep,v 1.16 2005/06/04 23:21:41 djm Exp $ |