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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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