Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alpha

From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
To: "Gentoo Alpha user list." <gentoo-alpha@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Missing GID/UID for sshd
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 04:05:13
Message-Id: 20040802035546.GM12327@time.flatmonk.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-alpha] Missing GID/UID for sshd by Rikard Johnels
1 Rikard Johnels wrote: [Thu Jul 29 2004, 11:19:19PM EDT]
2 > Tried starting sshd to remotely install Gentoo on my AlphaStation.
3 > sshd yells at me for not having privileged group
4 > It generates the keys, but stops with:
5 > "Privilege separation user sshd does not exist"
6 >
7 > I groupadd'ed an useradd'ed sshd with GID=65 and UID=71 from my SuSE
8 > instalation
9 > ~> cat /etc/group|grep sshd
10 > sshd:x:65:
11 > ~> cat /etc/passwd|grep sshd
12 > sshd:x:71:65:SSH daemon:/var/lib/sshd:/bin/false
13 >
14 > Maybe something to correct in the Stage1 tarball for Alpha
15
16 I've installed from alpha stage1 numerous times using sshd and never
17 had this problem. I don't know what we're doing differently...
18
19 Bryan is in the middle of generating new stages. Maybe you can give
20 them a try when he's done?
21
22 Regards,
23 Aron
24
25 --
26 Aron Griffis
27 Gentoo Linux Developer