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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Problem starting sshd as a service Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:45:25 -0700 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <20040804123351.75534.qmail@web11703.mail.yahoo.com> <200408051007.49817.gernot.hillier@siemens.com> <20040805083819.GC24647@cygbert.vinschen.de> <200408051053.09293.gernot.hillier@siemens.com> <20040805085922.GE24647@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-67-102-25-114.lsanca54.covad.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) In-Reply-To: <20040805085922.GE24647@cygbert.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Have a look into the script, right at the end. chown is only called if > sshd has been installed as service. Otherwise the script assumes that > sshd is going to be run from some user account in a console window. In > that case, chown'ing to system wouldn't make much sense. But would it hurt to chown even if sshd is going to be run from some user account in a console window? (Personally I find that assumption odd. Does anybody run sshd from some user account in a console window?) What would happen if things like /var/empty are always set to be owned by SYSTEM? -- If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/