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: Fri, 6 May 2005 16:42:20 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sshd "owned by root" error Message-ID: <20050506204220.GI29240@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 12:41:55PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Fri, 6 May 2005, Ordal, Peter wrote: >>I just finished an install of Cygwin's OpenSSH on XP SP 2. Along the >>way I got the error: >> >>/var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. >> >>This has been discussed several places before, I know. Still, I had a >>different experience than previous posts. I found that what "owned by >>root" meant was actually owned by the account running sshd. So, when I >>ran /usr/sbin/sshd -D under my domain account, I had to chown >>/var/empty to my account. > >The above might be a good candidate for the FAQ... I think the error message should probably be changed instead, although I suspect that the upstream openssh maintainers might balk at that. cgf -- 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/