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Date:  Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:38:11 -0000
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* Michael (Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:56:03 +0100)
> Thorsten:
> > > > > /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.
> > > > > --cut--
> > > > > $ ssh localhost
> > > > > ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused
> > > > > --cut--
> > > > >
> > > > > > and "strace  /usr/sbin/sshd -D"
> > > > >
> > > > > see attached file.
> > > > >
> > > > > where do I have to look at in the trace-file?
> > > >
> > > > Nowhere. "/var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-
> > > > writable" - that's pretty clear, isn't it?!
> > >
> > > I've already recognized this message, but as I wanted to chown to
> > > root, I was told that there's no "root"-user in the system...
> > >
> > > Now I "chown"ed to myself:root and now it works -> sshd is up for one
> > > connection ("ssh localhost") and ends when closing the connection.
> > >
> > > Afterwards I "chown"ed /var/empty/ to SYSTEM:root and again tried to
> > > start sshd as a service, but same error-message as before -> did I
> > > come closer to the solution, now I know, that sshd works from
> > > commandline?
> >
> > It says "and not group or world-writable" - that's pretty clear, isn't
> > it?!
> >
> I didn't mention, that I checked this too (that was the easier part,
> compared to user "root" ;-)).
> 
> $ ls -ld /var/empty/
> drwx--x--x+ 2 SYSTEM root 0 Feb 15 03:02 /var/empty/

Try to get rid of the ACEs that cause the "+" sign at the end of the ls 
listing. The plus sign probably means "permissions that do not
comply directly with the rwx(user,group,world) schema", but I'm far from 
sure about that.

Thorsten


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