sshd "owned by root" error

Joshua Daniel Franklin joshuadfranklin@gmail.com
Tue May 10 04:17:00 GMT 2005


On 5/9/05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May  6 16:42, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 12:41:55PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > >On Fri, 6 May 2005, Ordal, Peter wrote:
> > >>This has been discussed several places before, I know.  Still, I had a
> > >>different experience than previous posts.  I found that what "owned by
> > >>root" meant was actually owned by the account running sshd.  So, when I
> > >>ran /usr/sbin/sshd -D under my domain account, I had to chown
> > >>/var/empty to my account.
> > >
> > >The above might be a good candidate for the FAQ...
> >
> > I think the error message should probably be changed instead, although I
> > suspect that the upstream openssh maintainers might balk at that.
> 
> They will, no doubt about it.  The test for ownership is generally guarded
> by a test for the "root" user.  Only on Cygwin the test also tests for the
> user running sshd.  So that's FAQ fodder.

This issue seems closely related to the "Why doesn't su work?" FAQ at:
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html#SEC42>; perhaps I will expand that entry.

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