Have a sparc 2.8 system compiling with gcc. I have compiled versions for the last couple of years with absolutely no problems, but it looks like since the last time I compiled SSH and the current release it now has something that looks like it is a required feature (privelage seperation),.

I first tried to turn it off in the configure script by adding a --disable-privsep but that didn't work...

So then I tried to go along with it, and realized that it wanted to use a false shelled account of 'sshd', which I really didn't want to do, so I added the configure options of --with-privsep-user=nobody (which is a valid, no privelage user on Solaris).

So I compile it, make it and everything is fine, I go through the 'make install' and at the very end
it gives a wierd message of 'there is no such user as nobody, but then proceeds to print out its uid and gid' ?

Has anyone run into this problem ? I should be able to use user 'nobody' right , things like this are what its for ? I would really rather avoid creating another account...

Ideas ?

Neb