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

[Bob Van Cleef]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Jim Knoble wrote:

> Circa 2002-Jun-26 11:58:19 -0700 dixit Bob Van Cleef:
> 
>   [...]
> : 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]#
> 
> No.  Bad.  /var/empty should be mode 0755, owner 0 (root), group 0
> (root, wheel, sys, or whatever it is on your system).  And, it should
> be empty.  Does your useradd default to creating the user's home
> directory?  Perhaps that's why your /var/empty appears to have been
> chowned and populated from /etc/skel.
> 
> 

Jim;

You are correct.  I used useradd to create the account and it populated
the directory.  As previously noted, chown root.root cured the problem
and I have now deleted the .bash cruft.

Thanks again everyone for the quick response to this issue.

Bob

[ now to get it working under SunOS 4.1.4 - I love old systems :) ]