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

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Apr 15 08:51, 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?

http://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=149250723319262&w=2


Corinna

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