setuid for "ssh"

Sachin Bhugra bhugra.sachin at gmail.com
Thu Dec 29 20:36:54 UTC 2005


Hello,

 Can anybody pls tell me how to "setuid root" for ssh. I set the suid
bit for ssh and it looks like:

-rws--x--x 1 root root 217208 Sep 17 2003 /usr/bin/ssh

But the problem is, when i try to use ssh as normal user, then it runs
with normal user permissions and not with root. Say if i start ssh
under user account "abc", then ps -Af shows:

abc 1671 1636 0 00:46 pts/2 00:00:00 ssh 192.168.0.10

That means it is starting with the authority of the user and not root.

any ideas??

PS: I am doing this to set RhostsAuthentication with /etc/hosts.equiv,
on my private network, but cannot get it to work.




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