On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 11:36:13PM +0200, Christian Laursen wrote:
Is there a chance of an update which will work with both privsep and compression at some point in the near future, or will we have to wait for SuSE 8.1 to get that?
It already DOES work, iff you have a 2.4 kernel. The problem is with missing features in the shared mem implementation in 2.2 and earlier kernels.
That's another problem - Olaf and Solar Designer have made a backwards compatibility patch for the older distributions. I have removed this patch from the 8.0 package earlier today (yesterday) because 8.0 doesn't come with 2.2 kernels any more.
Sorry, but on the three machines I have now tested it on, it doesn't.
They are all running SuSE 8.0. One of them with the SuSE 2.4.18-4GB kernel, one with 2.4.18 and one with 2.4.19-rc1.
On all of them I get the following message, when I start sshd:
This platform does not support both privilege separation and compression Compression disabled
It's on our wishlist as well, yes. Compression is desireable whereever your link is weaker than your CPU. The 8.0 package has another bug that needs a fix: Key generation in the start script. It's a bit of a mess...
Christian Laursen
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