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Re: Odd timestampts in /var/log/messages from sshd

from [Scot P. Floess] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: Re: Odd timestampts in /var/log/messages from sshd
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:10:41 -0400 
Robin:

OK, that's very enlightening - I didn't know this information. I basically built ssh from the source so I will need to figure out whats going on :)

Thanks for the reply!

Robin Green wrote: 
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:53:22 -0400
"Scot P. Floess" <floess@mindspring.com> wrote:

Has anyone ever experienced this? 

Yes. Remember, recent versions of openssh use privilege separation by
default, so parts of ssh run as root. These differing times probably
means that root can read the timezone file, but the ordinary user
can't, because of a permissions problem on the file itself or one of
its parent directories.

(In my case, this was caused by me doing cd /; rpm2cpio foo.rpm | cpio
--extract -d, to fix a hosed system. But that erroneous command blew
away lots of permissions, and caused other problems, too.)

HTH,

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