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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
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Date:  Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:42:23 -0000
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* Michael (Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:56:03 +0100)
> > > > 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/

...and the "root" group looks suspicious, too. Get rid of that..

Thorsten


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