X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4E440607.8010501@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:40:39 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: SSHD Issue Windows 2003 64 bit References: In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; 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 8/11/2011 4:15 AM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Gary (Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:59:14 -0700) >> The logs specify: /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or >> world-writable. > > That's pretty clear, isn't it? > >> I've tried changing permissions, > > What exactly did you try? I expect the confusion comes from the stock sshd message that specifies 'root' where on Cygwin it really needs to be the user set up to run the service ('LocalSystem' on XP x86 and, typically, 'cyg_server' on everything else). -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ 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