sshd install troubles

[Jason Dufair]

Harig, Mark A. wrote:

>>I tried setting permissions on the above files to 666, which 
>>works but 
>>then I get a problem with permissions on /var/empty.  I've 
>>tried dozens 
>>of combinations of users, groups, and permissions on /var/empty to no 
>>avail.  Plus, it seems like a Really Bad Idea to have those 
>>files as 666.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>I have permissions for /var/empty/ set to 755, with
>the owner/group set to SYSTEM.SYSTEM.
>
>Check to make sure that SYSTEM is listed in
>/etc/passwd, and check to see that its UID is 18.
>
>Check to make sure that SYSTEM is listed in 
>/etc/group, and check to see that its GID is 18.
>
>I'm running Windows 2000.
>
Oddly, I did set the perms on /var/empty to what you said above, and 
then found that SYSTEM was listed twice in /etc/group (once by default 
on install and once doing the mkgroup -d >> /etc/group.  I took one out 
and lo and behold, the service started.

So then I did a complete reinstall (delete c:\cygwin and remove all 
registry entries) to make sure I could duplicate the problem (of having 
SYSTEM in /etc/group twice) and am now unable.  IOW, it works now.  I'll 
have to play around some more to try and figure out exactly what the 
problem was/is.

Thanks for your help.

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