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Subject: Re: openssh 5.1p1-3 / ssh-host-config dependency and permission 	issues
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On Oct  9 08:29, Karl Herrick wrote:
>
>>> 3. Is it safe to make the necessary permission changes to the various 
>>> files and directores (/etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /var) that openssh is 
>>> requesting changes to in order to "force" it to work?
>>>     
>>
>> I don't understand.  Change them and it will run.
>>   
> So that I am being clear, what I am saying is that in order to run 
> "ssh-host-config" without it returning errors, the latest installs of 
> OpenSSH on Cygwin require the following extra steps:
>
> "chmod +r /etc/passwd"
> "chmod +r /etc/group"
> "chmod o+x /var"
>
> Should I consider this a fix for the errors or a workaround? If it is a 
> workaround, does anyone know if there is work being done to make a 
> permanent fix?

The above chmod are in order to do manually and it's right to set
the permissions this way.  If it's not the default after doing a Cygwin
install then that's something to change in the appropriate scripts, but
I hazard to guess tha nobody is actively working on this for Cygwin
1.5.25.  It will probably get better with Cygwin 1.7, though.


Corinna

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