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

From: Charles Philip Chan (cpchan@sympatico.ca)
Date: 06/28/02 

From: Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@sympatico.ca>
Date: 28 Jun 2002 02:24:55 -0400

Simon Matthews <nobody@devnull.none> writes:

> on re-starting the service and logging in, I don't see any processes owned
> by sshd, yet the documentation states there should be an extra process
> --unless it is too transitory to see?

That process only exist when a ssh connection is requested and
*before* a successful login. You can varify this by starting ssh in one
console and then run

        ps aux | grep sshd

from another.
 
Charles 

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