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 Message-ID: <004301c2386c$f86139e0$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> From: "Max Bowsher" To: References: <009401c23756$03fdb930$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> <20020730160845.K3921@cygbert.vinschen.de> <015601c237e2$5036f230$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> <20020730182804.T3921@cygbert.vinschen.de> Subject: Re: openssh 3.4p1-4. Error starting sshd service Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 00:56:14 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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). Knew there was a reason I put probably :-) Thanks, Max. -- 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/