* Michael (Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:49:38 +0100) > Thorston: > > Please refrain from sending me private mail... > Sorry, I didn't want to offend you! - when answering, I deleted the > To: value by mistake and reenterd obviously the wrong address ...
You didn't offend me - you just sent your email to an unappropriate address... > > > /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. > > > --cut-- > > > $ ssh localhost > > > ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused > > > --cut-- > > > > > > > and "strace /usr/sbin/sshd -D" > > > > > > see attached file. > > > > > > where do I have to look at in the trace-file? > > > > Nowhere. "/var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world- > > writable" - that's pretty clear, isn't it?! > > I've already recognized this message, but as I wanted to chown to > root, I was told that there's no "root"-user in the system... > > Now I "chown"ed to myself:root and now it works -> sshd is up for one > connection ("ssh localhost") and ends when closing the connection. > > Afterwards I "chown"ed /var/empty/ to SYSTEM:root and again tried to > start sshd as a service, but same error-message as before -> did I > come closer to the solution, now I know, that sshd works from > commandline? It says "and not group or world-writable" - that's pretty clear, isn't it?! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/