Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42323797.10906BE1@dessent.net> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:28:07 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems starting SSHD References: <4231D448.7090208@real.com> <423226F1.50809@real.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Jeff Silverman wrote: > We solved our little problem with sshd failing to start, thanks to your > clues. > > First, /var/empty must be owned by SYSTEM. Second, /etc/ssh_host_key > must be owned by SYSTEM or else protected 644. Protecting it 644 is a > bad idea because it compromises security. Are you using /usr/bin/ssh-host-config to install the daemon? It should take care of all of that for you automatically. Brian -- 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/