X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:27:36 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: SSHD /var/empty must be owned by root Message-ID: <20120424072736.GB17620@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 Apr 24 09:10, Gyurmo wrote: > Hello, > I have: > > [code] > $ /usr/sbin/sshd.exe -D > /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. Why don't you run sshd as a service? That's what the ssh-host-config script is for. The above call from the command line does not allow to login with another account than the one sshd has been started under. Usually sshd tests if /var/empty is owned by uid 0. On Cygwin, where there's usually no user with uid 0, the code has been modified to test if /var/empty is owned by the user running sshd. So, if you start sshd on the command line, you have to chown /var/empty to the current user account. Same goes for the ssh-related files under /etc. The error message is the vanilla upstream error message. It hasn't been changed for Cygwin to keep the Cygwin-related upstream patchset small. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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