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Subject: Re: sshd.log /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or     world-writable.
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Brian Dessent wrote:

> I don't know why running ssh-host-config didn't work, you'd probably
> have to debug that a little more to find out.

It just occured that perhaps /var/empty did not exist the first time
ssh-host-config was run and thus the chown failed, and it was only
created when the sshd tried to start and failed.  If that's the case
then simply having ssh-host-config ensure that the directory exists
before setting ownership seems like the right thing.

Brian

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