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| ID | Category | Severity | Reproducibility | Date Submitted | Last Update | ||
| 0004417 | [openssh] packaging | tweak | always | 2010-05-14 20:25 | 2010-12-17 00:12 | ||
| Reporter | ckmehta1 | View Status | public | ||||
| Assigned To | yann | ||||||
| Priority | low | Resolution | no change required | Platform | |||
| Status | closed | OS | |||||
| Projection | none | OS Version | |||||
| ETA | none | Product Build | |||||
| Summary | 0004417: SSHD User's Home Directory | ||||||
| Description |
I was reviewing what components are in the package and I saw this directory in the package map file: /var/empty After some research for /var/empty and OpenSSH, I see its typically used as the home directory for the sshd user created in "preinstall" script. However the home directory for the sshd user in that script is "/var/run". I am thinking it might be advisable to make the home-directory for that user the /var/empty directory. |
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Some links on the subject: http://serverfault.com/questions/116632/what-is-var-empty-and-why-is-this-directory-used-by-sshd [^] http://www.sunfreeware.com/README.privsep [^] |
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(0008226) yann (developer) 2010-08-31 15:50 |
As you can read in README.privsep, the PRIVSEP directory is not set by changing the sshd home directory but by using the --with-privsep-path configure option. So the sshd home directory is not really important. Do you see a case where it would not safe to have /var/run as the home directory ? |
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(0008470) yann (developer) 2010-11-19 22:02 |
No news, good news ? |
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(0008579) yann (developer) 2010-12-17 00:12 |
No news, good news: I am closing this bug. Feel free to reopen a bug if necessary. |
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