How to create root account to own /var/empty for ssh?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 15/04/2017 17:51, L A Walsh wrote:
> The new version of ssh is not likely my "/var/empty", which it
> says:
>
> var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.
>
> It doesn't seems to like this:
>
>>  llg -a /var/empty
> total 4
> drwx------+ 1 root Administrators 0 Oct 11  2014 ./
>>  llg -an /var/empty
> total 4
> drwx------+ 1   0  544 0 Oct 11  2014 ./
>
> Multiple probs:
> 1) there is no root account on windows.
> 2) My Administrator account is named 'root', as it is the closest thing
> to 'root' on a windows machine.  But it doesn't like that. Originally
> was UID 500.
> 3) Tried changing root to UID 0, but that didn't work either. :-(
>
> How am I supposed to make ssh happy?
>
> Thanks!
> -l
>

user separation ?

$ ls -ld /var/empty
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 cyg_server Administrators 0 Jan  7  2015 /var/empty

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