sshd install troubles

[Jason Dufair]

Jason Dufair wrote:

> Harig, Mark A. wrote:
>
>>> I tried setting permissions on the above files to 666, which works 
>>> but then I get a problem with permissions on /var/empty.  I've tried 
>>> dozens of combinations of users, groups, and permissions on 
>>> /var/empty to no avail.  Plus, it seems like a Really Bad Idea to 
>>> have those files as 666.
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I have permissions for /var/empty/ set to 755, with
>> the owner/group set to SYSTEM.SYSTEM.
>>
>> Check to make sure that SYSTEM is listed in
>> /etc/passwd, and check to see that its UID is 18.
>>
>> Check to make sure that SYSTEM is listed in /etc/group, and check to 
>> see that its GID is 18.
>>
>> I'm running Windows 2000.
>>
> Oddly, I did set the perms on /var/empty to what you said above, and 
> then found that SYSTEM was listed twice in /etc/group (once by default 
> on install and once doing the mkgroup -d >> /etc/group.  I took one 
> out and lo and behold, the service started. 

I should be clear in saying that I set the perms and found that the 
service still did not run.  I edited /etc/group and it ran.

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