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weismat
Asked: 2010-12-06 23:53:24 +0800 CST

Cgywin - issue setting /var permissions for ssh

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I am having trouble to install ssh via Cygwin on my latest new Windows machine with the latest Cygwin version.

*** Warning: The permissions on the directory /var are not correct.
*** Warning: They must match the regexp d..x..x..[xt]
*** ERROR: Problem with /var directory. Exiting.
$ ls -al /
d--S--s--x+ 1 Matthias Administrators      0 2010-12-06 07:52 var

How can I modify the rights on the directory so that it fits the above mentioned regular expression?

windows ssh cygwin

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This should do it (do both):

    chmod 755 /var
chmod ug-s /var
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  2. For some reason I also had to execute

    chmod 775 /var/*

    to get ssh-host-config to work.

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