upgrading openssh 3.8.1p1-1 -> 3.9p1-1 breaks privilege separation

[David Rothenberger]

On 8/18/2004 8:23 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 18 10:30, Matt Swift wrote:
> 
>>I've verified on two machines running XP Pro with up-to-date Cygwin
>>installations that upgrading from openssh 3.8.1p1-1 to openssh 3.9p1-1
>>breaks sshd when running with privilege separation (the default).
>>Clients (including "ssh localhost") can not log into the Cygwin sshd.
>>Either turning off privilege separation in /etc/sshd_config or
>>downgrading and rebooting resolves the problem.
> 
> As a temporary measure, please add the -r option when starting sshd.
> I haven't found the exact culprit so far, but the above flag will help.
> 
> Thanks for the report.  It's embarassing that I didn't find the error
> myself since I had accidentally switched off privilege separation a few
> days ago :-(

I did not experience this problem when I upgraded and I thought that I 
had privilege separation enabled.  Is there any easy way to tell if it 
is on or not?

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