SSHD Issue Windows 2003 64 bit

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 8/11/2011 4:15 AM, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Gary (Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:59:14 -0700)
>> The logs specify: /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or
>> world-writable.
>
> That's pretty clear, isn't it?
>
>> I've tried changing permissions,
>
> What exactly did you try?

I expect the confusion comes from the stock sshd message that specifies
'root' where on Cygwin it really needs to be the user set up to run the
service ('LocalSystem' on XP x86 and, typically, 'cyg_server' on
everything else).

-- 
Larry

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A: Yes.
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