Re: Running Sshd as non-root

[Edward Rustin <ed () well com>]

off the top of my head I'd have to say that I don't think that you can do
this.

sshd needs to ensure that programs like (say) bash startup with the right
permissions and pointing at the right home directory etc. and I can't see
a way that this could be done with out sshd runing as root.

my 1.25cents...

Edward Rustin

Director of Security, Online Guardians

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Vineet Mehta wrote:

> I was trying to make my sshd more secure by running it on non-root user.
> Can anyone help me out with it? Has anyone done that before?
>
> I tried putting sudo for "service" command, and even "chown user:
> /etc/init.d/sshd" but it is not doing it.
>
> Any help appretiated  !!!
> Regards,
> --
> Vineet Mehta
> Network Security Consultant
> Kuwait Linux Company
> Kuwait
> Ph-2412552/2463633
> <vineet [at] linux [dot] com [dot] kw>
> www.linux.com.kw


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