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Hi guys.I have a little problem.I have a server with OpenSUSE 11 installed and yesterday I installed AWStats.I had to change some permissions to the /var directory,but I changed it for all the folders and files in /var directory.Now the ssh server doesn’t start.It gives me this error “Starting SSH daemon/var/lib/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.
…failed” Luckly i have webmin installed so I tried some Commands like chown -R root:root /var/lib/empty,chown root:root /var/lib/empty and even with chgrp with various combinations.Nothing seems to work.What to do because I can’t login in ssh and nx server.

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Set the permissions back to what they were before you changed all of them.
Setting all of /var to some other permissions seems risky at best. Set
the entire tree back to be owned by root:root (/var and /var/lib as well
as /var/lib/empty).

Good luck.

Legolas8911 wrote:
> Hi guys.I have a little problem.I have a server with OpenSUSE 11
> installed and yesterday I installed AWStats.I had to change some
> permissions to the /var directory,but I changed it for all the folders
> and files in /var directory.Now the ssh server doesn’t start.It gives me
> this error “Starting SSH daemon/var/lib/empty must be owned by root and
> not group or world-writable.
> …failed” Luckly i have webmin installed so I tried some Commands like
> chown -R root:root /var/lib/empty,chown root:root /var/lib/empty and
> even with chgrp with various combinations.Nothing seems to work.What to
> do because I can’t login in ssh and nx server.
>
>
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I’ve done that.That is what I’m trying to say,it doesn’t work.I’ve done this:

> chown -Rv root:root /var
ownership of `/var/spool/nagios' retained as root:root
ownership of `/var/spool/avmailgate/incoming' retained as root:root
ownership of `/var/spool/avmailgate/outgoing' retained as root:root
ownership of `/var/spool/avmailgate/rejected' retained as root:root
ownership of `/var/spool/avmailgate' retained as root:root
ownership of `/var/spool/atjobs/.SEQ' retained as root:root
..............(and all the /var directory with files and sufolders

and it doesn’t work :frowning:

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Make sure that the files are not “world writable”.


chmod o-w file
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Legolas8911 wrote:
> Hi guys.I have a little problem.I have a server with OpenSUSE 11
> installed and yesterday I installed AWStats.I had to change some
> permissions to the /var directory,but I changed it for all the folders
> and files in /var directory.Now the ssh server doesn’t start.It gives me
> this error “Starting SSH daemon/var/lib/empty must be owned by root and
> not group or world-writable.
> .failed” Luckly i have webmin installed so I tried some Commands like
> chown -R root:root /var/lib/empty,chown root:root /var/lib/empty and
> even with chgrp with various combinations.Nothing seems to work.What to
> do because I can’t login in ssh and nx server.

As far as files in the openssh package are concerned, take a look at
rpm {–setperms|–setugids} PACKAGE_NAME

Kind regards,
Andreas Stieger

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Thanks syampillai.Works like a charm :smiley: