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:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=nb3ytmbh6AV/2cXn uDGqU0otptrJdDcM7ankz5yVJKvWz9SGMdAFrYtzAcF6WcAH50ooXPcq71tXca/l Y1derr96AfI2eDvAYmK0jKlPFX5FCshlmL0qDRx37A00Yyy/7c/3JPX+Z2zRt7sK 3hs5EKMWL1HvUVDokJfeiWIq5BI= 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:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=HilIIs1dumOSEjO+JDd1Hf cX2f4=; b=bkCOfSAk9djpuiSCJiDJuL7Us8X9MM9OKn1JtQUxD0OmwZ8ciGaApb ESaDW+Mja3HYGgp3LtwIO5cRYzOlufeFoV1BEKBnrmEiM1ur21oigkVwRv++hPyg v1UobsVrhJt26G1BfITX2Ggnmx61AqXOtaXxjzDUfYiwO8SSNRQRg= 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=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=administrator X-HELO: mail-wr0-f181.google.com X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kM37nbb5+YPHC7kF8bYAeiBi0+vBkuNCZwSyBMyOn9c=; b=K/UyrT+f3E2a8oEvk1M/7SbHrd047C4DweQXPOMrsIUsOAl/aRbCoqamR5Jz4cYVIF 9fhDTAxfYh12EERil+13hdXKXAd7HBIMPEVOZsc8AfH/cuV5qnsHx9Ginr0WgmEQHYeV KSwdpTadrdG4l3CLi61218fgsseeK+J8uPUbYHbDwWAbxhp/ttUBgIRUyQ30nwv+V6Fv k5t1QTmIrcKIfD2R40RaLYxHxi2ZKMoDE9I67rJnC1lCkVLKltCEchq9U2DLRY9nKGK3 FS5rvtuC9TfYp3Edlg6K+rfvR6Kopygft3N9XUeWLYSKSgoDqLW7wvN9AauKne6JLZAL LnxQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AN3rC/7U63awt/dyuCPw6bhFixoMb6SBfHDiyAie++efUOGA367XMF3f Ka3jyJGrO92R7/nf X-Received: by 10.223.161.130 with SMTP id u2mr11487989wru.203.1492272223318; Sat, 15 Apr 2017 09:03:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: How to create root account to own /var/empty for ssh? To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <58F24188 DOT 3060503 AT tlinx DOT org> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <93276a4b-b80f-b39d-ea16-4975a080c9a3@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 18:03:40 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <58F24188.3060503@tlinx.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 15/04/2017 17:51, L A Walsh wrote: > The new version of ssh is not likely my "/var/empty", which it > says: > > var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. > > It doesn't seems to like this: > >> llg -a /var/empty > total 4 > drwx------+ 1 root Administrators 0 Oct 11 2014 ./ >> llg -an /var/empty > total 4 > drwx------+ 1 0 544 0 Oct 11 2014 ./ > > Multiple probs: > 1) there is no root account on windows. > 2) My Administrator account is named 'root', as it is the closest thing > to 'root' on a windows machine. But it doesn't like that. Originally > was UID 500. > 3) Tried changing root to UID 0, but that didn't work either. :-( > > How am I supposed to make ssh happy? > > Thanks! > -l > user separation ? $ ls -ld /var/empty drwxr-xr-x+ 1 cyg_server Administrators 0 Jan 7 2015 /var/empty -- 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