Mail Archives: cygwin/2011/04/02/04:51:43
On Apr 2 05:26, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>
> openssh.README is wrong.
Nope.
> It says:
A full quote was really not necessary. Quoting the relevant part
would have been sufficient.
> The new ssh-host-config script also adds the /var/empty directory
> needed by privilege separation. When creating the /var/empty directory
> by yourself, please note that in contrast to the README.privsep document
> the owner sshould not be "root" but the user which is running sshd. So,
> in the standard configuration this is SYSTEM. The ssh-host-config script
> chowns /var/empty accordingly.
>
> But when I "chown sshd /var/empty ; chmod 700 /var/empty", I still get
> the error message:
Sure enough. Read again.
First of all, it says that the ssh-host-config script will do that for
you, so you don't have to do it by yourself.
Second, it says that /var/empty should be owned by "the user which is
running sshd". It does *NOT* say /var/empty should be owned by "the
user called sshd". Now check the user name of the user running the sshd
service, probably "cyg_server" and call `chown cyg_server /var/empty".
> pjb AT lassell ~
> $ /usr/sbin/sshd
> /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.
When you're trying to start sshd on the comand line, the /var/empty file
should be owned by your own account.
However, why don't you just run ssh-host-config, install ssh as a service
and be done with it?
Corinna
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