topic Re: Starting HP-UX Secure Shell in Operating System - HP-UX

Starting HP-UX Secure Shell

Cesar Roldan — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:44:53 GMT

Hi, i can't start the ssh in my server

Starting HP-UX Secure Shell
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S393secsh start":
----------------------------
Privilege separation user sshd does not exist

EXIT CODE: 255
"/sbin/rc2.d/S393secsh start" FAILED

please give me some ideas, to resolve my problem

thanks

Re: Starting HP-UX Secure Shell

Coolmar — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:56:41 GMT

Hi Cesar,

Please see the following thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=226912&admit=-682735245+1166464538923+28353475

Re: Starting HP-UX Secure Shell

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:09:28 GMT

The error tells you exactly what the problem is.

"Privilege separation user sshd does not exist"

The user sshd MUST exist on your system. Normally, the installation of HP's SSH bundle takes care of this. If it didn't you might need to try reinstalling SSH.

Re: Starting HP-UX Secure Shell

Geoff Wild — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:24:02 GMT

Or just add the user sshd - uid 102 gid 102 I believe.

Myself, I'd re-install Secure Shell .

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Starting HP-UX Secure Shell

spex — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:46:21 GMT

Hi,

A quick check of some of my systems reveals that sshd's uid and gid can vary from one to another. If you feel like manually adding the user, the /etc/passwd entry is of the form:

sshd:*:192:103:sshd
privsep:/var/empty:/bin/false

and the /etc/group entry is of the form:
sshd::103:

However, I also recommend reinstalling HP-UX Secure Shell.

PCS

Re: Starting HP-UX Secure Shell

Peter Nikitka — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:22:27 GMT

Hi,

when you have no problem starting sshd later, it may that your priv-users sshd is a NIS user, but NIS was not already active when sshd was started.

I changed the startup of sshd to a later point, where NIS was active and no langer got this messages.

mfG Peter

Re: Starting HP-UX Secure Shell

CDI Support — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:22:56 GMT

My machine had same problem after importing password from another machine.
Added user
sshd:*:103:103:sshd privsep:/var/empty:/bin/false

Then it worked ok

- Mainak