On Oct 9 08:29, Karl Herrick wrote: > >>> 3. Is it safe to make the necessary permission changes to the various >>> files and directores (/etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /var) that openssh is >>> requesting changes to in order to "force" it to work? >>> >> >> I don't understand. Change them and it will run. >> > So that I am being clear, what I am saying is that in order to run > "ssh-host-config" without it returning errors, the latest installs of > OpenSSH on Cygwin require the following extra steps: > > "chmod +r /etc/passwd" > "chmod +r /etc/group" > "chmod o+x /var" > > Should I consider this a fix for the errors or a workaround? If it is a > workaround, does anyone know if there is work being done to make a > permanent fix?
The above chmod are in order to do manually and it's right to set the permissions this way. If it's not the default after doing a Cygwin install then that's something to change in the appropriate scripts, but I hazard to guess tha nobody is actively working on this for Cygwin 1.5.25. It will probably get better with Cygwin 1.7, though. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
