Re: [PLUG] sshd as regular user

[Charlie Li via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Rita via plug wrote:
> I am trying to run sshd as a regular user and different port (>1024). 
> 
> I created the keys and made a local copy of sshd_config. I set 
> UsePriviledgeSeperation  no
> UserPAM no
> 
> I start up the server like this. sshd -D -d -p 8888 -f sshd_config
> 
> It starts up.
> 
> But, I keep seeing setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted
> 
> Is there a way to go around this?
> 
No.

From the setgroups(2) man page (from FreeBSD, probably similar on Linux):
>      The setgroups() system call sets the group access list of the current
>      user process according to the array gidset.  The ngroups argument
>      indicates the number of entries in the array and must be no more than
>      {NGROUPS_MAX}+1.
> 
>      Only the super-user may set a new group list.


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