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

[Jim Knoble]

Circa 2002-Jun-27 13:28:24 +0200 dixit Dag-Erling Smorgrav:

: Thomas Binder <binder at arago.de> writes:
: > Note that make install will create the directory with 0700, while
: > README.privsep propagates 0755. Which mode is the one to use?
: 
: FreeBSD uses 0555 with no apparent trouble.

I suspect that the privsep/chroot directory could even be mode 0111.
sshd complains about it if (a) either chroot() or the subsequent
chdir("/") fails, (b) the privsep directory is owned by anyone other
than root, or (c) the privsep directory is either group- or
world-writeable.

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