Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-11 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:47:26PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: On 4/10/2014 20:16, Duncan Roe wrote: Yes, I'm one of those users. I need my login name to match the Linux systems so I can use rsh and not be challenged for a password when the cygwin host name is in ~/.rhosts If you switch

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-11 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-04-11 04:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 01:15:12AM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote: ... The reason I'm not contributing more is the requirement to assign copyright to a for-profit organization. Sorry. Yeah. That bothered me a little when I first had to do it and, I

Re: [PATCH] base-files-4.2-1: Change prompt if running with admin rights

2014-04-11 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 10.04.2014 03:39, schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Achim Gratz! Christian Franke writes: Attached is an updated version of: https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00806.html I'll put this on hold until the AD integration has landed in Cygwin (which will require some larger changes

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-11 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Warren Young wrote: If you think web code repository searching and a public bug tracker are primary barriers to contribution, you aren't being honest with yourself. They are nice, but not necessary. I am honest with myself.

Re: Possible bug with chere 1.4 when configuring for fish

2014-04-11 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Dave Kilroy! -1 mode fails because fish would prefer cygpath was run on the argument first. I'm not sure why this works in bash. Because bash know what is going on. In fact, many cygwin tools recognize native paths. I'll try put together a fix for the latter issue, but it may be a

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 11 15:03, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Warren Young wrote: If you think web code repository searching and a public bug tracker are primary barriers to contribution, you aren't being honest with yourself. They are nice, but

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 11 09:01, Peter Rosin wrote: On 2014-04-11 04:17, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 01:15:12AM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote: ... The reason I'm not contributing more is the requirement to assign copyright to a for-profit organization. Sorry. Yeah. That bothered me a

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 14:20, Eric Blake wrote: On 04/10/2014 01:04 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: A local cygwin user told me that the users in their company would probably be confused by the '+ or, FWIW, any other non-backslash char, because they were drilled to see and use usernames always in

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 16:21, Warren Young wrote: On 4/10/2014 14:20, Eric Blake wrote: is BOUND to go wrong. The expression ~a/b/file is NOT requesting 'file' within user 'a/b's home, but 'b/file' within user 'a's home. Excellent point. Doesn't that also argue against backslash, due to the

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 11 16:20, Duncan Roe wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:47:26PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: On 4/10/2014 20:16, Duncan Roe wrote: Yes, I'm one of those users. I need my login name to match the Linux systems so I can use rsh and not be challenged for a password when the cygwin host

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 21:46, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: * cygserver now provides system-wide passwd/group entry caching. All processes started *after* cygserver will try to fetch passwd and group entries from cygserver. While this is probably a bit slow at the start, the

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 14:24, Eric Blake wrote: On 04/10/2014 01:46 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: * cygserver now provides system-wide passwd/group entry caching. All processes started *after* cygserver will try to fetch passwd and group entries from cygserver. While this is

Re: sshd buildup of CLOSE_WAIT leading to unable to function

2014-04-11 Thread Joshua Hudson
The interesting detail is it would always stop at exactly 64 sockets open; which is the maximum number for which select() doesn't have to spawn a second thread. Problem disappeared. Given the traces I got the reproduction would involve somebody's deranged trojan SSH scanner. 64 to too low for

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 02:10:42PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 11 09:01, Peter Rosin wrote: The newlib license is liberal enough for RedHat to relicense it under their own terms? That's it, more or less. I have never seen how you can have it both ways, legally speaking. I was told not

setting cygwin terminal (mintty) title from a very remote system

2014-04-11 Thread Ross Boylan
I typically connect to systems through several hops; this note is about how I managed to set the title of the cygwin terminal to match the remote system. Usually it just shows the name on the first hop only. I would love to learn there is a better way to get the same results. Various

Re: setting cygwin terminal (mintty) title from a very remote system

2014-04-11 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:13:07PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I typically connect to systems through several hops; this note is about how I managed to set the title of the cygwin terminal to match the remote system. Usually it just shows the name on the first hop only. I would love to learn

Re: [PATCH] base-files-4.2-1: Change prompt if running with admin rights

2014-04-11 Thread Christian Franke
Thomas Wolff wrote: I use this in .bashrc (to embed $rootmark in an ESC sequence in PS1 later). I think it doesn't have specific dependencies and also it's portable (except the group names are Windows ones...). It's not portable because Windows default user/group names are localized. if

Two problems getting user and group info from /etc/{passwd,group}

2014-04-11 Thread q q
Dear Cygwin developers, Can you please take a look? - We came across a couple problems (times two, because they're identical for /etc/group as well): 1.  When '/etc/passwd' gets reloaded, it can't add the last (default) line for uid=-1 because pretty_ls[] has already been parsed (':'s

OpenSSH Package Distribution Architecture Mismatch

2014-04-11 Thread Auteria W. Winzer Jr.
I noticed an anomaly within both 32bit and 64bit distributions of OpenSSH. The package maintainer inadvertently placed the architectures in their opposition. At 1st glance I thought I had clicked the wrong icon thinking I was using 64bit within 32bit's space, and vice-versa. The latest OpenSSH

Re: OpenSSH Package Distribution Architecture Mismatch

2014-04-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/11/2014 5:49 PM, Auteria W. Winzer Jr. wrote: I noticed an anomaly within both 32bit and 64bit distributions of OpenSSH. The package maintainer inadvertently placed the architectures in their opposition. At 1st glance I thought I had clicked the wrong icon thinking I was using 64bit

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-11 Thread Duncan Roe
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 02:39:34PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 11 16:20, Duncan Roe wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:47:26PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: On 4/10/2014 20:16, Duncan Roe wrote: Yes, I'm one of those users. I need my login name to match the Linux systems so I

Re: setting cygwin terminal (mintty) title from a very remote system

2014-04-11 Thread Duncan Roe
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:13:07PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: I typically connect to systems through several hops; this note is about how I managed to set the title of the cygwin terminal to match the remote system. Usually it just shows the name on the first hop only. I would love to learn