X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <29969-23293@sneakemail.com> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:19:06 +0100 From: "Michael" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: problem installing cygwin+sshd In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4750-32499@sneakemail.com> <86772a380702170134r4cd6d72dwd588e8adcbd1daec@mail.gmail.com> <31389-25452@sneakemail.com> <29966-88389@sneakemail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 > > > > > 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.. > $ mkgroup -l > /etc/group $ ls -dl /var/empty drwxr-xr-x+ 2 SYSTEM Administrators 0 Feb 18 20:06 /var/empty => done :-) > Try to get rid of the ACEs that cause the "+" sign at the end of the ls listing.[...] but I don't know how to get rid of the "+". What is this "+" (???) called, so I can search for it and find out what to do? thanks michi -- 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/