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From: "Nick.Battle@uk.fujitsu.com" <Nick.Battle@uk.fujitsu.com>
To: Kevin Layer <layer@franz.com>, "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: SSH access to desktop
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 07:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57975e0466c643bdb0d2ac1403a84304@R01UKEXCASM112.r01.fujitsu.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32580.1459975366@freon.franz.com>

> $ /usr/sbin/sshd.exe -p 8100
> /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.
> ...
> drwxr-x--x+ 1 Administrator  Administrators 0 Mar 16 10:08 empty/

Try making the owner of this directory the same as the Windows user that is running the sshd service. I think this is a hard coded error message that says "root" in the expectation that this runs sshd. But that is not the case on Windows/Cygwin.

Cheers,
-nick

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-07  7:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-06 20:42 Kevin Layer
2016-04-07  7:46 ` Nick.Battle [this message]
2016-04-07 22:12 Kevin Layer

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