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Re: sshd service wont accept password


On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:17:17PM +0100, Bernhard Ege wrote:
>Bernhard Ege wrote:
>>Well, I am at a loss. My sshd service will not accept my password. 
>>However, starting sshd like this:
>>
>>/usr/sbin/sshd &
>>
>>and then quitting the bash shell (optional) makes sshd work just fine, 
>>accepting my password as it should.
>>
>
>>Invalid user bme from 127.0.0.1.
>
>Ok, I thought of one thing more to try just after sending my previous 
>email. The above log line (invalid user) prompted me to check the owner 
>of the /etc/passwd file and it was owned by bme (me). I changed it to 
>SYSTEM and the sshd service worked again. I just figured SYSTEM was able 
>to read my files and didn't think twice about it before now.
>
>I am sorry for not figuring this out before sending my email, but it is 
>not always easy to debug foreign applications. :-/

I'm glad that you figured this out yourself.  That's rare.

I think we have to do a better job somehow of assuring that the permissions
on files in /etc and other system areas are accessible via processes that
run as SYSTEM.

I wonder if maybe we shouldn't be using the windows service manager but
should be relying more on xinetd.  Or, we could have one super-service
manager which sets itself up to spawn other applications.

cgf

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