X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=VBOHWeTvqEeHLKF5ZQEGMRRF8Gcnu4bjrWdDYtzUDF3 YUKXYbdj2YmU/i7/XFMfBFKZ0NR8E5dP87KRlEvdzXfu1eYGQ+qMk3oGxO9E1b2Q LSEmeztpPDWZ+BOH8J4+7vlMDKY0nxKLDr5vOWf9A1tFlTpQZUuMKdmry61nRBQY = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=p6MMzA7aBY5HLyrIuJiA8YEtGaY=; b=tGWhjanm5rJj/ItSh q8teSy8oSlc63TiWtQIFnnvUoBdRPQk5CTBx4CA5v/BzjuJhE7jrJxfPb4DHx0Ui ScLKIAcZSLrIXaXJpf6lPkT2YUn4OjJqXOFTEDHTfMzKMDT05EPMy6sWTA1UOV5n 76Bfy6Zh5GTU9GIDe9NT1tjYoE= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock03.mail.cornell.edu X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Message-ID: <5400F2EE.8020604@cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:38:54 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: (call-process ...) hangs in emacs References: <87wq9v9j2y DOT fsf AT Rainer DOT invalid> <53FD0662 DOT 5050208 AT cornell DOT edu> <20140827084245 DOT GD20700 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <53FDD4A8 DOT 5050401 AT cornell DOT edu> <20140828095524 DOT GO20700 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20140828131832 DOT GT20700 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <20140829110938 DOT GD20700 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <5400C19D DOT 4070408 AT cornell DOT edu> <87ha0vhzge DOT fsf AT Rainer DOT invalid> <5400D64D DOT 1090709 AT cornell DOT edu> <87d2bjhxqx DOT fsf AT Rainer DOT invalid> In-Reply-To: <87d2bjhxqx.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 8/29/2014 4:00 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ken Brown writes: >> I just checked /var/log/sshd.log. (I hadn't thought to do that >> before.) The last message in it is, "/var/empty must be owned by root >> and not group or world-writable." So the problem seems to be that >> /var/empty appears to sshd to be group writable under the latest >> snapshot. This is the "downside" that Corinna mentioned. What needs >> to be done to /var/empty to fix this? > > You need to remove all ACL from the directory, either with setfacl or > (from cmd) icacls or even the security tab in Explorer. Most likely > these are inherited from the parent directory of the Cygwin > installation. The ACLs aren't inherited. They're explicitly set by ssh-host-config: if ! /usr/bin/setfacl -m u:system:rwx "${LOCALSTATEDIR}/empty" >/dev/null 2>&1 then csih_warning "Can't set extended permissions on ${LOCALSTATEDIR}/empty!" let ++warning_cnt fi This must be done for a reason, but I don't know what it is. Ken -- 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