X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Robert W. Kuhn" Subject: root and chown Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:40:43 +0100 Lines: 33 Message-ID: <18k1iodi01ckf.1rrzef1z5dlt8$.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1de (b05f34a4.468.38) 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 Hello, a do have a problem with my cygwin-NFS-Server, root and chown On my windows computer: root@server:grep root /etc/passwd root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash operator:*:12:0:operator:/root: root@server:chown root sshd/ chown: changing ownership of `sshd': Invalid argument On the nfs client (imported its file system per nfs): root@client:/var/empty# grep root /etc/passwd root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash operator:*:12:0:operator:/root:/bin/sh root@client:/var/empty# chown root sshd/ chown: changing ownership of `sshd/': Invalid argument Where is my error? How can I solve this? The original proble is that I want to start the ssd-server on the client but: root@client:/var/empty# /etc/init.d/ssh start Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd/var/empty/sshd must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. failed (255: ). Bye - Robert -- 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/