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Privilege separation, or privsep, is an experimental feature in Privilege separation, or privsep, is method in OpenSSH by which
OpenSSH in which operations that require root privilege are performed operations that require root privilege are performed by a separate
by a separate privileged monitor process. Its purpose is to prevent privileged monitor process. Its purpose is to prevent privilege
privilege escalation by containing corruption to an unprivileged escalation by containing corruption to an unprivileged process.
process. More information is available at: More information is available at:
http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/ssh/privsep.html http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/ssh/privsep.html
Privilege separation is not enabled by default, and may be enabled by Privilege separation is now enabled by default; see the
specifying "UsePrivilegeSeparation yes" in sshd_config; see the UsePrivilegeSeparation option in sshd_config(5).
UsePrivilegeSeparation option in sshd(8).
When privsep is enabled, the pre-authentication sshd process will When privsep is enabled, the pre-authentication sshd process will
chroot(2) to "/var/empty" and change its privileges to the "sshd" user chroot(2) to "/var/empty" and change its privileges to the "sshd" user
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Privsep requires operating system support for file descriptor passing Privsep requires operating system support for file descriptor passing
and mmap(MAP_ANON). and mmap(MAP_ANON).
PAM-enabled OpenSSH is known to function with privsep on Linux and PAM-enabled OpenSSH is known to function with privsep on Linux.
Solaris 8. It does not function on HP-UX with a trusted system It does not function on HP-UX with a trusted system
configuration. PAMAuthenticationViaKbdInt does not function with configuration. PAMAuthenticationViaKbdInt does not function with
privsep. privsep.
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process 6917 is the privileged monitor process, 6919 is the user owned process 6917 is the privileged monitor process, 6919 is the user owned
sshd process and 6921 is the shell process. sshd process and 6921 is the shell process.
$Id: README.privsep,v 1.5 2002/05/22 01:02:15 djm Exp $ $Id: README.privsep,v 1.6 2002/06/21 14:45:50 djm Exp $