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: Mon, 9 May 2005 11:33:45 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sshd "owned by root" error Message-ID: <20050509093345.GB11572@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20050506204220.GI29240@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050506204220.GI29240@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On May 6 16:42, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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. They will, no doubt about it. The test for ownership is generally guarded by a test for the "root" user. Only on Cygwin the test also tests for the user running sshd. So that's FAQ fodder. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/