Re: McAfee and CygWin SSH

Darren Tucker wrote:
On 2006-08-18, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Darren Tucker wrote:
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You can run sshd as a daemon with -r too.

It seemed to exit after a single connection. I'm wondering if I
should try running out of inetd.

(Dig, dig, dig.)

Ahh, that only happened if I used the "-d" option as well. It seems
to be operating now by using the flags "-D -r" instead of just -D,
which is what CygWin's ssh-host-config sets it up for.

Hmm. Is this a change that should be pushed through CygWin's setup
tools?

No. It doesn't work because there's something funky with your system
but normally it should work fine.

It's a fairly common funkiness: there are a stack of reports of McAfee SSHD
failures on the web and in the McAfee and CygWin forums or mailing lists,
with various workarounds of disabling the "Buffer Overflow Protection" of
McAfee version 8.0 or 8.1. That configuration switch isn't available in
their current "McAfee Security Center" software, or I'd have tried it. But
it does give a software hint about what is going on.

And to the manpage for sshd?

Maybe.

Please, yes. The "-r" option isn't even mentioned in the 4.3p1 or 4.3p2 man
pages that I'm reading right now. Having secret command line options is one
of the banes of my software existence.


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