X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: problem installing cygwin+sshd Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:42:23 -0000 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <4750-32499@sneakemail.com> <86772a380702170134r4cd6d72dwd588e8adcbd1daec@mail.gmail.com> <31389-25452@sneakemail.com> <29966-88389@sneakemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 * Michael (Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:56:03 +0100) > > > > Nowhere. "/var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world- > > > > writable" - that's pretty clear, isn't it?! > > > > > > I've already recognized this message, but as I wanted to chown to > > > root, I was told that there's no "root"-user in the system... > > > > > > Now I "chown"ed to myself:root and now it works -> sshd is up for one > > > connection ("ssh localhost") and ends when closing the connection. > > > > > > Afterwards I "chown"ed /var/empty/ to SYSTEM:root and again tried to > > > start sshd as a service, but same error-message as before -> did I > > > come closer to the solution, now I know, that sshd works from > > > commandline? > > > > It says "and not group or world-writable" - that's pretty clear, isn't > > it?! > > > I didn't mention, that I checked this too (that was the easier part, > compared to user "root" ;-)). > > $ ls -ld /var/empty/ > drwx--x--x+ 2 SYSTEM root 0 Feb 15 03:02 /var/empty/ ...and the "root" group looks suspicious, too. Get rid of that.. Thorsten -- 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/