SSH access to desktop

[Nick.Battle@uk.fujitsu.com]

> $ /usr/sbin/sshd.exe -p 8100
> /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.
> ...
> drwxr-x--x+ 1 Administrator  Administrators 0 Mar 16 10:08 empty/

Try making the owner of this directory the same as the Windows user that is running the sshd service. I think this is a hard coded error message that says "root" in the expectation that this runs sshd. But that is not the case on Windows/Cygwin.

Cheers,
-nick

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