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[hang]can not start sshd in cygwin

when invokes

/usr/sbin/sshd

gots error "/var/empty must be owned by root ..."

it occurs because that the owner of /var/empty and LogOn account of
Microsoft's services (services.msc) is not consistent

$ ls -ld /var/empty
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 root Administrators 0 Nov 23 22:58 /var/empty


$ sc qc sshd
[SC] QueryServiceConfig SUCCESS

SERVICE_NAME: sshd
TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
START_TYPE : 2 AUTO_START
ERROR_CONTROL : 1 NORMAL
BINARY_PATH_NAME : e:\pkg\cygwin\bin\cygrunsrv.exe
LOAD_ORDER_GROUP :
TAG : 0
DISPLAY_NAME : CYGWIN sshd
DEPENDENCIES : tcpip
SERVICE_START_NAME : LocalSystem


SERVICE_START_NAME(LocalSystem) and the owner(root) of /var/empty is consistent