• Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    Maybe it is time to move to something new

    Also why does sshd run as root. I deal like ssh could use some least privilege

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      4 months ago

      When you log in to an ssh terminal for a shell, it has to launch the shell process as the desired user. Needs to be root to do that.

      SSH has been around a long time. It’s not perfect, but it’s mostly validated. Anything new won’t have that history.

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        4 months ago

        Can’t it use built in OS mechanisms for that? Surely you could figure out a way to only give it permissions it needs. Maybe break it up into two separate processes.

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          4 months ago

          That just sounds like root with extra steps (trying to implement OS security policies in a remote terminal utility)

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      Root because it use port 22. I think anything lower than port 1024 requires it. But if this is true, then you can try change the port it is listening to something higher than that.