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

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Aug 29 15:36, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 8/29/2014 3:23 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> >Ken Brown writes:
> >>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?

What needs to be done is to fix the ssh-host-config script.  It adds an
ACE for SYSTEM on /var/empty, /etc, and /var/log for no apparent reason.

I just sent a patch upstream which removes the code trying to generate
/etc and /var/log entirely (done by setup.exe) and which drops adding
a SYSTEM ACE to /var/empty.

A temporary workaround is either to remove the SYSTEM ACE:

  $ setfacl -d g:18: /var/empty

or to change /etc/sshd_config not to use privilege separation:

  UsePrivilegeSeparation no

However, this is obviously a problem for all existing installations.
OpenSSH 6.7p1 will be released pretty soon.  I will add a postinstall
script which removes the SYSTEM ACE from /var/empty at installation
time.


Corinna

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