X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,HK_RANDOM_ENVFROM,HK_RANDOM_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,SARE_FROM_CONS6S X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120424072736.GB17620@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20120424072736 DOT GB17620 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> From: Gyurmo Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:22:18 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: SSHD /var/empty must be owned by root To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-O2-Trust: 2, 61 X-O2-SPF: neutral X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id q3O9NaJ0025885 Thanks, This is solved me. I only created /var/empty with login in sshd. Only this needed. And I wrote inside win service sshd username and passwd. Thanks. 2012/4/24 Corinna Vinschen : > On Apr 24 09:10, Gyurmo wrote: >> Hello, >> I have: >> >> [code] >> $ /usr/sbin/sshd.exe -D >> /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. > > Why don't you run sshd as a service?  That's what the ssh-host-config > script is for.  The above call from the command line does not allow to > login with another account than the one sshd has been started under. > > Usually sshd tests if /var/empty is owned by uid 0.  On Cygwin, where > there's usually no user with uid 0, the code has been modified to test > if /var/empty is owned by the user running sshd.  So, if you start sshd > on the command line, you have to chown /var/empty to the current user > account.  Same goes for the ssh-related files under /etc.  The error > message is the vanilla upstream error message.  It hasn't been changed > for Cygwin to keep the Cygwin-related upstream patchset small. > > > Corinna -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple