sftp on a Windows 2003 server

[Dave M]

Larry,
  OK, so I removed everything, cleaned up the registry, emptied the recycle bin and rebooted. then I logged in with a local use that had local admin right and reionstalled.

Test@S-EXSYSLOG01 ~
$ ssh-host-config
*** Query: Overwrite existing /etc/ssh_config file? (yes/no) yes
*** Info: Creating default /etc/ssh_config file
*** Query: Overwrite existing /etc/sshd_config file? (yes/no) yes
*** Info: Creating default /etc/sshd_config file
*** Info: Privilege separation is set to yes by default since OpenSSH 3.3.
*** Info: However, this requires a non-privileged account called 'sshd'.
*** Info: For more info on privilege separation read /usr/share/doc/openssh/READ
ME.privsep.
*** Query: Should privilege separation be used? (yes/no) yes
*** Warning: The permissions on the directory /var are not correct.
*** Warning: They must match the regexp d..x..x..[xt]
*** ERROR: Problem with /var directory. Exiting.

Test@S-EXSYSLOG01 ~
$ ls -l /var
total 0
drwxrwx---+ 3 Test Users 0 Sep 24 10:13 cache
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 Test None  0 Sep 24 10:17 empty
drwxrwx---+ 3 Test Users 0 Sep 24 10:13 lib
drwxrwxr-x+ 2 Test Users 0 Sep 24 10:17 log
drwxrwx---+ 2 Test Users 0 Sep 24 10:13 run
drwxrwx---+ 2 Test Users 0 Sep 24 10:13 tmp

Test@S-EXSYSLOG01 ~
$

  I saw something that said I should try 'chown system:system /var/empty', then 'chmod 755 /var/empty' should I try that, or what would you suggest?
Dave M




----- Original Message ----
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:38:57 AM
Subject: Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server

On 09/24/2009 10:22 AM, Dave M wrote:
> $ ssh-host-config
> *** Query: Overwrite existing /etc/ssh_config file? (yes/no) yes
> *** Info: Creating default /etc/ssh_config file
> *** Query: Overwrite existing /etc/sshd_config file? (yes/no) yes
> *** Info: Creating default /etc/sshd_config file
> *** Info: Privilege separation is set to yes by default since OpenSSH 3.3.
> *** Info: However, this requires a non-privileged account called 'sshd'.
> *** Info: For more info on privilege separation read /usr/share/doc/openssh/READ
> ME.privsep.
> *** Query: Should privilege separation be used? (yes/no) yes
> *** Warning: The permissions on the directory /var are not correct.
> *** Warning: They must match the regexp d..x..x..[xt]
> *** ERROR: Problem with /var directory. Exiting.

Do you have a local administrator you could log in as instead of your domain
user?  My guess is that your domain user is at least part of all these permission
problems.  If you don't have a local domain user, perhaps it makes sense to
get your user and group represented in the '/etc/passwd' and '/etc/group' files
instead.  Alternatively, you may find a 1.7 install smooths over some of these
difficulties as well, as Julio mentioned.

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