> > [snip] > > > > - Create a local home directory (e.g. /home/john); mount the remote > > > directory (//Filer) onto it; then mount c:\cygwin\home\john\.ssh onto > > > /home/john/.ssh. > > > > I want to make sure I understand your suggestion. Does it > amount to doing > > the following on 'Alpha'? > > mkdir /home/john > > mount //Filer/john /home/john > > mount c:\cygwin\home\john\.ssh /home/john/.ssh > > > > In this case my home directory is at '//Filer/john'. > > Yes, exactly. Note that, as I said below, you will not be able to access > //Filer/john/.ssh as /home/john/.ssh after that. You should still be able > to access it directly as //Filer/john/.ssh, though, so it's no big loss. > Oh, and you'll need to *create* /home/john/.ssh before mounting > //Filer/john over it... >
I gave this a try, but it didn't work as hoped for. > > BTW, on a related, but slightly different topic, I didn't even > get to this > > point until I solved the problem of 'cygrunsrv -S sshd' > resulting in 'Error > > 1062'. Thank goodness for 'log' files! When I finally looked at > > '/var/log/sshd.log' I saw it filled with repetitions of the message > > "/var/empty must be owned by root and not group or > world-writable." > > Indeed '/var/empty' was owned by 'john:Users'. After I changed it to > > 'SYSTEM:root', I was able to start 'sshd'. I don't understand why the > > '/var/empty' directory created by '/bin/ssh-host-config' didn't have the > > right ownership. But it didn't. > > I actually don't recall you attaching the output of "cygcheck -svr" for > your machine (as requested in <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>). This > would tell us, among other things, the version of Windows and the version > of the openssh package that you're running. AFAICS, ssh-host-config in > the latest couple of versions of openssh contains a bit of code specific > to NT-based systems that *does* chown /var/empty to SYSTEM:544 > (SYSTEM:Administrators, IIRC). If that didn't work on your machine, we > need to find out why. > Igor It's correct that I didn't attach a "cygcheck -svr" report. I can say, however, that the machines on which I have observed this problem were running Windows 2000 and 'OpenSSH_3.7.1p2'. I see what must be the code to create the directory with the proper permissions/ownership: . . . # Check if running on NT _sys="`uname -a`" _nt=`expr "$_sys" : "CYGWIN_NT"` . . . # Create /var/empty file used as chroot jail for privilege separation if [ -f /var/empty ] then echo "Creating /var/empty failed\!" else mkdir -p /var/empty # On NT change ownership of that dir to user "system" if [ $_nt -gt 0 ] then chmod 755 /var/empty chown system.system /var/empty fi fi . . Should the 'chown' line be 'chown system.root' instead? Anyway, if I have to install 'sshd' again, I will pay close attention to what happens here. Thanks for the suggestions. john -- 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/
