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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-3.9p1-1
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:08:22 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-3.9p1-1
- References: <BAY19-F20mvoIc4vQ9o00052fa3@hotmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Aug 18 09:57, Karl M wrote:
> Hi All...
>
> I didn't find -r in the man page. I have not had time to scan the sources
> :-(
>
> What does it do?
Switching off reexec'ing.
Corinna
> [...]
> >* Make sshd(8) re-execute itself on accepting a new connection. This
> >security
> > measure ensures that all execute-time randomisations are reapplied for
> >each
> > connection rather than once, for the master process' lifetime. This
> >includes
> > mmap and malloc mappings, shared library addressing, shared library
> >mapping
> > order, ProPolice and StackGhost cookies on systems that support such
> >things
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