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Re: openssh 3.4p1-4. Error starting sshd service


On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 05:00:55PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 10:34:26AM -0300, Pablo Milano wrote:
> >> /var/lohg/ssh.log says:
> >> "Bad owner or mode for /var/empty"
> >> 
> >> Inside Cygwin, I see this owner and modes for that directory:
> >> drwxr-xr-x    2 Administ Administ        0 Jul 29 17:58 empty
> > 
> > chown SYSTEM.SYSTEM /var/empty
> 
> And probably also:
> 
> chmod 700 /var/empty

Not necessary.  755 is ok.  sshd just checks that write permissions
is only given to the owner (resp. root on other systems).

Corinna

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