On 12/6/05, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12/6/05, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Confirmed, I have glibc-2.3.4, OpenSSH_4.1p1.  I should've read the
> > errata before  However, while turning off UseDNS does the trick,
> > turning UseDNS back on and making the directory /var/lib/sshd/lib does
> > not work.  The crash returns exactly the same.
> >
> > Any other thoughts?  Everything about the system core is straight LFS
> > 6.1.  I'll be happy to provide more info if it might be of use.
>
> Hmm, I thought that would've done it.  Do you compile openssh as the
> book does, particularly:
>
> useradd -c 'sshd PrivSep' -d /var/lib/sshd -g sshd \
>     -s /bin/false -u 50 sshd
> and
> --with-privsep-path=/var/lib/sshd
>
> That's where the /var/lib/sshd/lib comes from.  I guess keep using
> UseDNS no.  It worked for me for quite a while.  Upgrading to the
> latest 4.2p1 for openssh might help because it had a bug that showed
> the same symptoms, but I don't know if the fix is in 4.2.
>
> The real solution is to rebuild glibc with a patch, but you've gotta
> have experience or cajones to do it.  If you're interested, I could
> tell you how to do it.  It's not insane, but care has to be taken (and
> a package manager helps).


Well... Sign me up!  How would I go about rebuilding glibc with the patch?
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