Re: sshd "owned by root" error

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 12:41:55PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Fri, 6 May 2005, Ordal, Peter wrote:
>>I just finished an install of Cygwin's OpenSSH on XP SP 2.  Along the
>>way I got the error:
>>
>>/var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.
>>
>>This has been discussed several places before, I know.  Still, I had a
>>different experience than previous posts.  I found that what "owned by
>>root" meant was actually owned by the account running sshd.  So, when I
>>ran /usr/sbin/sshd -D under my domain account, I had to chown
>>/var/empty to my account.
>
>The above might be a good candidate for the FAQ...

I think the error message should probably be changed instead, although I
suspect that the upstream openssh maintainers might balk at that.

cgf

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