Cygserver functionality in UG

2019-02-15 Thread Sam Edge (Cygwin)
Hi Cygwin UG maintainers. Might it not be a good idea to mention the cygserver ntsec caching functionality in the section https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygserver.html#what-is-cygserver with a cross-reference? I'd submit a patch but I'm a bit busy this morning and am not familiar with

Re: Windows to Cygwin username mapping: Domain before local account when duplicate name?

2019-02-15 Thread Sam Edge (Cygwin)
On 14/02/2019 23:47, Bill Stewart wrote: > Consider the case where you have a local account and a domain account > with the same username. > > If you supply just the username to Windows without an authority name, > Windows returns the local account. To get the domain account, you'd > have to

Re: sshd permits logon using disabled user?

2019-01-27 Thread Sam Edge (Cygwin)
On 25/01/2019 18:03, Bill Stewart wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 10:48 AM Stephen Paul Carrier > wrote: > >> There are different paths to access and to completely disable the account >> you need to close all of them. There are many reasons to disable some >> paths without disabling all paths

Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.

2017-09-30 Thread Sam Edge (Cygwin)
On 29/09/2017 23:39, Steven Penny wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 21:16:17, "Sam Edge (Cygwin)" wrote: >> For example we have lots of dependency loops in the 'requires' fields in >> setup.ini - even to the point that some packages depend upon themselves! > > It is

Dependency issues in setup.ini.

2017-09-29 Thread Sam Edge (Cygwin)
Hi all. I've been developing a Python package that can interrogate and manipulate local package caches (the directories where setupXXX.exe keeps its downloads) and installation databases (from Cygwin /etc/setup/installed.db files) with a mind to pruning, merging and reporting in the spiript of