Starting HP-UX Secure Shell

[Cesar Roldan]

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

[Coolmar]

Hi Cesar,

Please see the following thread:

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

[Patrick Wallek]

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.

[Geoff Wild]

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

Myself, I'd re-install Secure Shell .

Rgds...Geoff

[spex]

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

[Peter Nikitka]

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

[CDI Support]

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