Re: Privilege separation user "sshd" does not exist

From: Luicas (nospam@nomail.com)
Date: 06/28/02


From: "Luicas" <nospam@nomail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 16:01:51 +0300


> > I have Slackware 8.1 installed and OpenSSH with it. Well, it needed
> > upgradining so i downloaded version 3.4.
> >
> > make install ... ERROR: Privilege separation user "sshd" does not exist
> >
> I don't know about Slack, but the installation README on OpenBSD
> mentions the need of adding this user manually.

-Yup. There it was all explained in "README.privsep". (Just pointing out to
others as lazy as me.)

I'm sorry I wasted everyones time and resources.



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