X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48F3FA15.7010701@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:47:01 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080723 Fedora/2.0.0.16-1.fc8 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem Running ssh-host-config References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Kai Ponte wrote: > I am just setting up ssh on my wife's Win2K computer. > > I've installed cygwin and am in the process of running ssh-host-config. > > Here's what I get: > > lilly AT lilly /var/run > $ ssh-host-config -y > *** Query: Overwrite existing /etc/ssh_config file? ( > *** Info: Creating default /etc/ssh_config file > *** Query: Overwrite existing /etc/sshd_config file? > *** Info: Creating default /etc/sshd_config file > *** Info: Privilege separation is set to yes by defau > *** Info: However, this requires a non-privileged acc > *** Info: For more info on privilege separation read > ME.privsep. > *** Query: Should privilege separation be used? (yes/ > *** Warning: The owner and the Administrators need > *** Warning: to have .w. permission to /var/run. > *** Warning: Here are the current permissions: > *** Warning: drwxr-xr-x 2 lilly None 0 Oct 12 21:41 / > *** Warning: Please change the user and/or group owne > *** Warning: permissions of /var/run. > *** ERROR: Problem with /var/run directory. Exiting. > > > I searched and could onnly find this: > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-07/msg00520.html > > ...which led me to this list. > > I tried to set permissions and to chown the file there, but to no avail. > > lilly AT lilly /var/run > $ chown lilly utmp > > > Ideas? > > The drive is - because it dual-boots with openSUSE - FAT32. Sounds like your csih package isn't current. Try updating it. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/