On Apr 15 08:51, 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? http://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=149250723319262&w=2 Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat