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: Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 21:12:41 -0700 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin Reply-To: Joshua Daniel Franklin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sshd "owned by root" error In-Reply-To: <20050509093345.GB11572@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050506204220.GI29240@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050509093345.GB11572@calimero.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j4A4D6DY014474 On 5/9/05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > 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: > > >>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. This issue seems closely related to the "Why doesn't su work?" FAQ at: ; perhaps I will expand that entry. -- 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/