Re: sshd running with "-R" ?

joseph85750_at_yahoo.com
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: 28 Mar 2005 10:22:44 -0800

Richard E. Silverman wrote:
> It indicates that the sshd process was started by another sshd (or by
inetd).
>
> --
> Richard Silverman
> res@qoxp.net

Inetd is not starting sshd.

sshd is being started via RC3 as follows:

/usr/local/sbin/sshd

More system specifics:
SunOS 5.9 Generic_117171-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80
OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004

Compiled as follows:

--with-tcp-wrappers=/path/to/tcpwrappers
--with-prngd-socket=/var/run/egd-pool

These options are no different than any of my other openSSH installs.

Is the "-R" something that shows up with OpenSSH_3.9p1 and newer?

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