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Old 01-07-2009, 10:50 PM   #1
jhwilliams
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sshd chain is pstree output?


Looking at the output of pstree on my server at a given time while I'm ssh'd to it, I see this:

Code:
     ├─sshd───sshd───sshd───bash───pstree
and ps aux has:
Code:
root      2296  0.0  0.0  25840  1236 ?        Ss   22:42   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root      2423  0.0  0.0  36792  2684 ?        Ss   22:43   0:00 sshd: jameson [priv]
jameson   2425  0.0  0.0  36932  1740 ?        S    22:43   0:00 sshd: jameson@pts/0
I could understand that a privileged sshd daemon launches a process for jameson, but what is the intermediary [priv] one about?

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Old 01-09-2009, 08:08 AM   #2
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the main sshd process will spawn a thread for each connection, and that thread then spawns the users environment. I think.
 
  


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