On Apr 2 05:26, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > > openssh.README is wrong.
Nope. > It says: A full quote was really not necessary. Quoting the relevant part would have been sufficient. > The new ssh-host-config script also adds the /var/empty directory > needed by privilege separation. When creating the /var/empty directory > by yourself, please note that in contrast to the README.privsep document > the owner sshould not be "root" but the user which is running sshd. So, > in the standard configuration this is SYSTEM. The ssh-host-config script > chowns /var/empty accordingly. > > But when I "chown sshd /var/empty ; chmod 700 /var/empty", I still get > the error message: Sure enough. Read again. First of all, it says that the ssh-host-config script will do that for you, so you don't have to do it by yourself. Second, it says that /var/empty should be owned by "the user which is running sshd". It does *NOT* say /var/empty should be owned by "the user called sshd". Now check the user name of the user running the sshd service, probably "cyg_server" and call `chown cyg_server /var/empty". > pjb@lassell ~ > $ /usr/sbin/sshd > /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. When you're trying to start sshd on the comand line, the /var/empty file should be owned by your own account. However, why don't you just run ssh-host-config, install ssh as a service and be done with it? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
