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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problem starting sshd as a service
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 07:45:25 -0700
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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?
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