X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,J_CHICKENPOX_27,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4ABB9291.2090501@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:38:57 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server References: <32517.57262.qm@web33505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4ABA9468.6060408@cygwin.com> <32405.5122.qm@web33504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4ABA99A9.6080103@cygwin.com> <510384.1152.qm@web33508.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4ABAD5CB.1020208@cygwin.com> <140340.33560.qm@web33502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <140340.33560.qm@web33502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On 09/24/2009 10:22 AM, Dave M wrote: > $ ssh-host-config > *** Query: Overwrite existing /etc/ssh_config file? (yes/no) yes > *** Info: Creating default /etc/ssh_config file > *** Query: Overwrite existing /etc/sshd_config file? (yes/no) yes > *** Info: Creating default /etc/sshd_config file > *** Info: Privilege separation is set to yes by default since OpenSSH 3.3. > *** Info: However, this requires a non-privileged account called 'sshd'. > *** Info: For more info on privilege separation read /usr/share/doc/openssh/READ > ME.privsep. > *** Query: Should privilege separation be used? (yes/no) yes > *** Warning: The permissions on the directory /var are not correct. > *** Warning: They must match the regexp d..x..x..[xt] > *** ERROR: Problem with /var directory. Exiting. Do you have a local administrator you could log in as instead of your domain user? My guess is that your domain user is at least part of all these permission problems. If you don't have a local domain user, perhaps it makes sense to get your user and group represented in the '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' files instead. Alternatively, you may find a 1.7 install smooths over some of these difficulties as well, as Julio mentioned. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple