bad owner on /var/empty: RH6.2 sparc 3.4p1

[Tim Rice]

chown root:root /var/empty

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Bob Van Cleef wrote:

>
> Well, back to 3.1p1....
>
> Linux ns1 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Tue Mar 7 20:54:26 EST 2000 sparc unknown
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> During the install of 3.4p1 I saw:
>
> [snip]
> ./mkinstalldirs /var/empty
> chmod 0700 /var/empty
> [snip]
> id sshd || \
>         echo "WARNING: Privilege separation user \"sshd\" does not exist"
> uid=9999(sshd) gid=9999(sshd) groups=9999(sshd)
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> When attempting to run I see:
>
> [root at ns1 openssh-3.4p1]# /usr/local/sbin/sshd -d
> This platform does not support both privilege separation and compression
> Compression disabled
> debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_3.4p1
> debug1: private host key: #0 type 0 RSA1
> debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
> debug1: private host key: #1 type 1 RSA
> debug1: read PEM private key done: type DSA
> debug1: private host key: #2 type 2 DSA
> Bad owner or mode for /var/empty
> [root at ns1 openssh-3.4p1]# ls -l /usr/local/sbin/sshd
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       801476 Jun 26 11:36
> /usr/local/sbin/sshd
> [root at ns1 openssh-3.4p1]# ls -lag /var/empty
> total 5
> drwx------    2 sshd     sshd         1024 Jun 25 16:13 .
> drwxr-xr-x   19 root     root         1024 Jun 25 16:13 ..
> -rw-r--r--    1 sshd     sshd           24 Jun 25 16:13 .bash_logout
> -rw-r--r--    1 sshd     sshd          230 Jun 25 16:13 .bash_profile
> -rw-r--r--    1 sshd     sshd          124 Jun 25 16:13 .bashrc
> [root at ns1 openssh-3.4p1]#
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Built --with-pam, so:
>
> [root at ns1 openssh-3.4p1]# cat /etc/pam.d/sshd
> #%PAM-1.0
> auth       required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nodelay
> auth       required     /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
> account    required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
> password   required     /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so
> password   required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok use_authtok md5
> session    required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
> session    required     /lib/security/pam_limits.so
>
> [root at ns1 openssh-3.4p1]# grep ssh /etc/shadow /etc/passwd /etc/group
> /etc/shadow:sshd:!!:11863:0:99999:7:::
> /etc/passwd:sshd:x:9999:9999::/var/empty:/bin/bash
> /etc/group:sshd:x:9999:
>
>
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