Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/02/18/13:42:45
> ...
> >> > $ /usr/sbin/sshd -D -ddd
> ...
> >> > /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.
> ...
> >
> > I've already recognized this message, but as I wanted to chown to
> > root, I was told that there's no "root"-user in the system...
> >
> > Now I "chown"ed to myself:root and now it works -> sshd is up for one
> > connection ("ssh localhost") and ends when closing the connection.
> >
> > Afterwards I "chown"ed /var/empty/ to SYSTEM:root and again tried to
> > start sshd as a service, but same error-message as before -> did I
> > come closer to the solution, now I know, that sshd works from
> > commandline?
>
> These sound like the same steps I have gone through. sshd asks for
> root, but it is actually SYSTEM. This is what I ended up with on 2
> different working systems:
>
> drwxr-xr-x+ 2 SYSTEM Administrators 0 Sep 5 15:53 /var/empty
> dr-xr-xr-x+ 2 SYSTEM root 0 Jan 10 12:57 /var/empty
ok - this prcondition should be clear now =>
chown SYSTEM:root /var/empty
chmod 755 /var/empty
> But these did not work for me either when I tried running it from the
> command line (instead of a service). It had to be owned by the current
> user. [...]
ok - same I found out for running sshd from commandline.
> The ownership/permissions were the problem on another system I debugged,
> but this box ended up having a totally different problem. It had a
> program running with so many connections that Window's netstat program
> would not work anymore. We rebooted and then sshd worked, as well as
> netstat. The moral of the story is that if netstat isn't working, don't
> bother trying to run sshd.
unfortunately "netstat" *does* work on that machine (there are only 5
connections to only 2 different nodes open!) ...
michi
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