Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3DC05791.1010804@dufair.org> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:05:05 -0500 From: Jason Dufair User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021030 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: sshd install troubles References: <3DC05669 DOT 70409 AT dufair DOT org> In-Reply-To: <3DC05669.70409@dufair.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jason Dufair wrote: > Harig, Mark A. wrote: > >>> I tried setting permissions on the above files to 666, which works >>> but then I get a problem with permissions on /var/empty. I've tried >>> dozens of combinations of users, groups, and permissions on >>> /var/empty to no avail. Plus, it seems like a Really Bad Idea to >>> have those files as 666. >>> >>> >> >> >> I have permissions for /var/empty/ set to 755, with >> the owner/group set to SYSTEM.SYSTEM. >> >> Check to make sure that SYSTEM is listed in >> /etc/passwd, and check to see that its UID is 18. >> >> Check to make sure that SYSTEM is listed in /etc/group, and check to >> see that its GID is 18. >> >> I'm running Windows 2000. >> > Oddly, I did set the perms on /var/empty to what you said above, and > then found that SYSTEM was listed twice in /etc/group (once by default > on install and once doing the mkgroup -d >> /etc/group. I took one > out and lo and behold, the service started. I should be clear in saying that I set the perms and found that the service still did not run. I edited /etc/group and it ran. -- Jason Dufair - jase AT dufair DOT org http://www.dufair.org/ "You wear sandals in the snow and a smile that won't wash away Can you look out the window without your shadow getting in the way?" -- Sarah McLachlan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/