Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/02/18/14:19:30
> > > > > Nowhere. "/var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-
> > > > > writable" - that's pretty clear, isn't it?!
> > > >
> > > > 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?
> > >
> > > It says "and not group or world-writable" - that's pretty clear, isn't
> > > it?!
> > >
> > I didn't mention, that I checked this too (that was the easier part,
> > compared to user "root" ;-)).
> >
> > $ ls -ld /var/empty/
> > drwx--x--x+ 2 SYSTEM root 0 Feb 15 03:02 /var/empty/
>
> ...and the "root" group looks suspicious, too. Get rid of that..
>
$ mkgroup -l > /etc/group
$ ls -dl /var/empty
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 SYSTEM Administrators 0 Feb 18 20:06 /var/empty
=> done :-)
> Try to get rid of the ACEs that cause the "+" sign at the end of the ls
listing.[...]
but I don't know how to get rid of the "+". What is this "+" (???)
called, so I can search for it and find out what to do?
thanks
michi
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