Re: Privilege separation user (OpenSSH 3.4) install prob.

From: Kasper Dupont (kasperd@daimi.au.dk)
Date: 06/28/02


From: Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 09:26:17 +0200

Tony Curtis wrote:
>
> >> On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 22:26:46 GMT,
> >> Simon Matthews <nobody@devnull.none> said:
>
> > I keep getting the following error message at the end of
> > 'make install': id sshd || \ echo "WARNING: Privilege
> > separation user \"sshd\" does not exist" uid=5003(sshd)
> > gid=5003(sshd) groups=5003(sshd)
>
> No, that's right.
>
> It's just the "I am now doing..." output from the "make"
> command that you're seeing: it's succeeding, because you
> see the output of "id". The "echo" would only happen if
> "id" failed (=> there was no user "sshd").

That's right, but it surely is confusing. I was wondering
about the same for a short time until I figured it out.

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