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Re: (call-process ...) hangs in emacs


Greetings, Ken Brown!

>>> With the latest snapshot I can't start the sshd service.  The
>>> Application Log just says, "`sshd' service stopped, exit
>>> status:255". The problem doesn't occur with the 2014-08-27 snapshot.
>>> I guess this has something to do with the new permissions on various
>>> files, but I'm not sure which ones.
>>
>> Off the top of my head for the standard installation:
>>
>> /etc/ssh*
>> /var/empty
>> /var/log/sshd
>>
>> When you try to debug the sshd, IIR these are the files that must be
>> chown'ed to the admin user that runs sshd from the terminal.  Running in
>> debug mode (either from the terminal or via sshd_config) should produce
>> messages which file or directory sshd is choking on.

> I just checked /var/log/sshd.log.  (I hadn't thought to do that before.) 
>   The last message in it is, "/var/empty must be owned by root and not 
> group or world-writable."  So the problem seems to be that /var/empty 
> appears to sshd to be group writable under the latest snapshot.  This is 
> the "downside" that Corinna mentioned.  What needs to be done to 
> /var/empty to fix this?

I think, setting ACL that will directly translate to -rwx------ without any
"+" should help.

I'm in the middle of transfer to Win7/64, can't test anything right now.


--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 29.08.2014, <23:56>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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