- (stevesk) [README.privsep] more for sshd pseudo-account.
diff --git a/README.privsep b/README.privsep
index dd8069a..ced943f 100644
--- a/README.privsep
+++ b/README.privsep
@@ -14,14 +14,18 @@
When privsep is enabled, during the pre-authentication phase sshd will
chroot(2) to "/var/empty" and change its privileges to the "sshd" user
-and its primary group. You should do something like the following to
-prepare the privsep preauth environment:
+and its primary group. sshd is a pseudo-account that should not be
+used by other daemons, and must be locked and should contain a
+"nologin" or invalid shell.
+
+You should do something like the following to prepare the privsep
+preauth environment:
# mkdir /var/empty
# chown root:sys /var/empty
# chmod 755 /var/empty
# groupadd sshd
- # useradd -g sshd -c 'sshd privsep' -d /var/empty sshd
+ # useradd -g sshd -c 'sshd privsep' -d /var/empty -s /bin/false sshd
/var/empty should not contain any files.
@@ -54,4 +58,4 @@
process 6917 is the privileged monitor process, 6919 is the user owned
sshd process and 6921 is the shell process.
-$Id: README.privsep,v 1.9 2002/06/26 00:25:48 tim Exp $
+$Id: README.privsep,v 1.10 2002/06/26 00:43:57 stevesk Exp $