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 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Problem starting sshd as a service Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:45:25 -0700 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <20040804123351 DOT 75534 DOT qmail AT web11703 DOT mail DOT yahoo DOT com> <200408051007 DOT 49817 DOT gernot DOT hillier AT siemens DOT com> <20040805083819 DOT GC24647 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <200408051053 DOT 09293 DOT gernot DOT hillier AT siemens DOT com> <20040805085922 DOT GE24647 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h-67-102-25-114.lsanca54.covad.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) In-Reply-To: <20040805085922.GE24647@cygbert.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Have a look into the script, right at the end. chown is only called if > sshd has been installed as service. Otherwise the script assumes that > sshd is going to be run from some user account in a console window. In > that case, chown'ing to system wouldn't make much sense. But would it hurt to chown even if sshd is going to be run from some user account in a console window? (Personally I find that assumption odd. Does anybody run sshd from some user account in a console window?) What would happen if things like /var/empty are always set to be owned by SYSTEM? -- If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/