Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:28:04 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: openssh 3.4p1-4. Error starting sshd service Message-ID: <20020730182804.T3921@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <009401c23756$03fdb930$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> <20020730160845.K3921@cygbert.vinschen.de> <015601c237e2$5036f230$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <015601c237e2$5036f230$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 05:00:55PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 10:34:26AM -0300, Pablo Milano wrote: > >> /var/lohg/ssh.log says: > >> "Bad owner or mode for /var/empty" > >> > >> Inside Cygwin, I see this owner and modes for that directory: > >> drwxr-xr-x 2 Administ Administ 0 Jul 29 17:58 empty > > > > chown SYSTEM.SYSTEM /var/empty > > And probably also: > > chmod 700 /var/empty Not necessary. 755 is ok. sshd just checks that write permissions is only given to the owner (resp. root on other systems). Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/