[plug] sshd help (take2) Solved!

[Denis Brown]

A few days ago I reported problems with sshd not working on Gentoo... not 
allowig any connections despite apparently all being okay.   I sent a plea 
also to th Gentoo forum and recvd an answer that I should check permissions 
on the /var/empty and /var/run directories as well as the sshd entry in 
/etc/passwd

the passwd file entry and the permissions for /var/run (755) were 
correct.   However the perms for /var/empty were supposed to be 644 whereas 
mine were 755.   Chmod'd this to 644 and hey presto, ssh is happy.   Just 
to check, reset to 755 and ssh STILL happy.   I hate that! :-)   Finally 
left it at 644 just to be safe but all remains well.   Fingers crossed.

Thanks to Craig, Julian, Bill, et al but I didn't get to try anything else 
at this stage.... maybe it will try to bite me in future nd I'll be able to 
delve deeper.
Denis