openssh: privilege separation no longer supported on Cygwin? SURPRISE!

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Houder!

>   - however, the userid of the grandchild of the sshd listener, is STILL
>     cyg_server ... NOT sshd!

Exactly. cyg_server is the user which does impersonation.
You've been told that when you've been setting up your host.

> As if the "sshd" account is NEVER, NEVER used during the _whole_ process
> (that is, there is NO privilege separation, as far as I can tell).

As far as it is documented.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, May 29, 2017 22:56:04

Sorry for my terrible english...


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