On 20 February 2013 16:43, Les Mikesell <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Fisher, Allen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > OK. I need some more help and to let a small rant loose.
>
> I agree on the rant - not so much on the choice to fix a security
> problem, but certainly about communicating the fact that updating
> _will break_ working systems and documenting how to make them work
> again.   I can sort-of understand this on the trunk releases, but
> what's the point of having an LTS version here?
>

The whole point of LTS is to give you something where only *critical bugs*
and *security* fixes are applied during the life of the LTS. All other
changes are left for the next LTS.


> > I’ve tried all the suggestions mentioned here[1] and here[2] and I cannot
> > get Jenkins to control the slaves via something other than JNLP. When I
> try
> > to run as a service I get:
> >
> > Connecting to winslave.mygreatcompany.com
> >
> > ERROR: Access is denied. See
> >
> http://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Windows+slaves+fail+to+start+via+DCOM
> > for more information about how to resolve this.
>
> I haven't gotten a win2008 box to work that way either.  Does anyone
> know if you could use Cygwin or freeSSHd on windows boxes and make it
> work like linux?
>
> >
> > Now for my rant… What we had set up with JNLP as a windows service worked
> > really well. It made new boxes easy to configure and we’ve had very few
> > problems with it. I’m going to switch our Macs to SSH, which I’ve been
> > meaning to do anyway. While I appreciate the need and effort to address
> > security concerns, there’s got to be an option missing, whether that be
> > restore the old functionality as an option (which we would be fine with
> us
> > since we’re quite nicely situated behind a firewall), or a way to connect
> > that doesn’t require that the token be different each and every time.
>
> If you are using matrix authorization, have you tried allowing
> anonymous slave connect/disconnect?
>
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