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RE: SSH access to desktop
- From: "Nick dot Battle at uk dot fujitsu dot com" <Nick dot Battle at uk dot fujitsu dot com>
- To: Kevin Layer <layer at franz dot com>, "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 07:46:48 +0000
- Subject: RE: SSH access to desktop
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <32580 dot 1459975366 at freon dot franz dot 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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