From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9012 invoked by alias); 18 Feb 2008 03:41:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 9002 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Feb 2008 03:41:29 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from dessent.net (HELO dessent.net) (69.60.119.225) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:41:12 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dessent.net) by dessent.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JQwsQ-0002w6-Nr for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:41:10 +0000 Message-ID: <47B8FE55.26B702CC@dessent.net> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:03:00 -0000 From: Brian Dessent X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sshd.log /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. References: <000601c871cb$4dcadf60$0a00a8c0@a64x23800p> <47B8FC9F.AFC60944@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-02/txt/msg00443.txt.bz2 Brian Dessent wrote: > I don't know why running ssh-host-config didn't work, you'd probably > have to debug that a little more to find out. It just occured that perhaps /var/empty did not exist the first time ssh-host-config was run and thus the chown failed, and it was only created when the sshd tried to start and failed. If that's the case then simply having ssh-host-config ensure that the directory exists before setting ownership seems like the right thing. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/