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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
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Subject: Re: openssh 3.4p1-4. Error starting sshd service
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 00:56:14 +0100
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 05:00:55PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 10:34:26AM -0300, Pablo Milano wrote:
>>>> /var/lohg/ssh.log says:
>>>> "Bad owner or mode for /var/empty"
>>>> 
>>>> Inside Cygwin, I see this owner and modes for that directory:
>>>> drwxr-xr-x    2 Administ Administ        0 Jul 29 17:58 empty
>>> 
>>> chown SYSTEM.SYSTEM /var/empty
>> 
>> And probably also:
>> 
>> chmod 700 /var/empty
> 
> Not necessary.  755 is ok.  sshd just checks that write permissions
> is only given to the owner (resp. root on other systems).

Knew there was a reason I put probably :-)

Thanks,

Max.


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