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Subject: Re: Cannot change permission of /var/empty
From: Mirko Vukovic <mirko DOT vukovic AT gmail DOT com>
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Andrey,

your command, "setfacl -b", helped me fix the file permission issue
described below:

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru> wrote:
> Greetings, Mirko Vukovic!
>
>> (Cygwin64, Windows 7, cygcheck attached - with some site details omitted)
>
>> I updated cygwin64 yesterday, and sshd stopped working.  I reinstalled
>> cygwin64, configured sshd, but it is still failing.
>
>> The message in /var/log/sshd.log is:
>
>> /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.
>
>> I tried fixing the permissions (started shell as administrator) but I
>> cannot change the group permission via chmod g-w.  I don't get any
>> error messages.  Here are the permissions for /var/empty (some details
>> elided):
>
>>>ls -ld /var/empty
>> drwxr-xr--+ 1 MACHINE+cyg_server Administrators 0 Feb 24 16:12 /var/empty/
>
>> I am member of the administrators group on my machine.  The cyg_server
>> and sshd users look ok.
>
>> Any thoughts on why I cannot change the permission?
>
> setfacl -b
> Or just remove it altogether.
>
>
> --
> WBR,
> Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru) 25.02.2015, <03:37>
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
>

Your English was more than adequate for this job :-)

Mirko

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