cygwin ssh setup permissions error
 

I am trying to run ssh-host-config on cygwin on my windows machine to set up an ssh server. Here is a complete transcript:

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How do I get my permissions back to how they need to be and how do I fix the original problem I was having?

chmod +x /var

what does then say?

it says:
thanks for the reply.

chmod u+w /var

then what does ssh-host-config say?

Here's the whole thing:

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It looks like there are still some permissions problems. It made a new account called 'privileged server', and I also tried starting sshd from there, but got the same problem, and it didn't report an error.

try chmod 644 /etc/passwd and /etc/group

no luck, got the same message with no error report.

Here's where I am:

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I am thinking that this is one of the main causes of the problem. What do I type here?