Starting sshd: Missing privilege separation directory: /var/empty/sshd

原文地址：http://blog.163.com/ly_89/blog/static/186902299201110211181828/

启动 sshd 服务的时候报了如上的错误，本来开始认为是 sshd 的配置文件的错误，其实不是配置文件的问题。一下是解决的方法：

The SSHD service while restarting, looks for the “/var/empty/sshd/etc” directory which contains a symlink to the ‘localtime’ file. If the file doesn’t exist, it results in a “cannot create symbolic link `/var/empty/sshd/etc’: No such file or directory” error message.

The complete error message is as follows:

-bash-3.2# service sshd restart cp: cannot create symbolic link `/var/empty/sshd/etc’: No such file or directory Starting sshd: Missing privilege separation directory: /var/empty/sshd [FAILED]

The solution is to create the “/var/empty/sshd/etc” directory and then create a symlink for localtime file.

# mkdir /var/empty/sshd/etc
# cd /var/empty/sshd/etc
# ln -s /etc/localtime localtime

Once done, you should be able to restart the sshd service