X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:47:05 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: openssh 5.1p1-3 / ssh-host-config dependency and permission issues Message-ID: <20081009124705.GZ9289@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <48EBBDCA.5050804@millbrookprinting.com> <20081009111625.GV9289@calimero.vinschen.de> <48EDF931.3030106@millbrookprinting.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48EDF931.3030106@millbrookprinting.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) 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 On Oct 9 08:29, Karl Herrick wrote: > >>> 3. Is it safe to make the necessary permission changes to the various >>> files and directores (/etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /var) that openssh is >>> requesting changes to in order to "force" it to work? >>> >> >> I don't understand. Change them and it will run. >> > So that I am being clear, what I am saying is that in order to run > "ssh-host-config" without it returning errors, the latest installs of > OpenSSH on Cygwin require the following extra steps: > > "chmod +r /etc/passwd" > "chmod +r /etc/group" > "chmod o+x /var" > > Should I consider this a fix for the errors or a workaround? If it is a > workaround, does anyone know if there is work being done to make a > permanent fix? The above chmod are in order to do manually and it's right to set the permissions this way. If it's not the default after doing a Cygwin install then that's something to change in the appropriate scripts, but I hazard to guess tha nobody is actively working on this for Cygwin 1.5.25. It will probably get better with Cygwin 1.7, though. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/