Re: ssh-pageant

Dear Andrew, Thanks for the detailed reply. Interesting! It's not that simple. You can't blindly restart agent every time you wish without notifying other programs, `--reuse` is a very bad idea and there's no easy way to set/change an environment variable globally for an entire user session.

Re: ssh-pageant

So.. one more thing to consider. I just had a look in the cygwin package search for packages shipping files in /etc/profile.d/ It turns out that one example already shipping in Cygwin is http://www.cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/gnome-ssh-askpass/gnome-ssh-askpass-7.4-1 gnome-ssh-askpass:

Re: ssh-pageant

On 23/04/2020 17:40, Chris Rodgers wrote: Thomas Wolff wrote: >/Would it be acceptable to update the ssh-pageant package to add a file />//etc/profile.d/ssh-pageant.sh that does this automatically? /Does what? Add something to other users' profiles? P.S. I realise I may have been u

Re: ssh-pageant

Thomas Wolff wrote: >/Would it be acceptable to update the ssh-pageant package to add a file />//etc/profile.d/ssh-pageant.sh that does this automatically? /Does what? Add something to other users' profiles? Sounds like MS-style patronizing of user preferences. Certainly not appreciated by

ssh-pageant

Hi, I find the ssh-pageant package helpful to enable cygwin ssh to interact seamlessly with PuTTY's Pageant SSH agent. One small issue is that after installing, one has to add the lines: |# ssh-pageant eval $(/usr/bin/ssh-pageant -r -a "/tmp/.ssh-pageant-$USERNAME")| (see

Re: [1.7] Setup.exe default ownership of files in fresh install [Admin:None?]

Dear List, I have two admin accounts on a Windows XP Pro machine. I installed Cygwin 1.7 beta using Admin1 initially. This morning, I tried to update some packages from account Admin2. I kept getting errors about not being able to update files because they were in use. It turned out that

Two other quick things about setup.exe

Dear List, I noticed two other small things this morning: (1) Pressing ENTER in the search box at the top of the package selection screen causes installation to continue to the next stage. Would it be possible to ignore ENTER in that box? This would make the UI similar to e.g. Firefox and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: editrights-1.01-1

. This includes ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin in general. If you want to make a point or ask a question, the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. Chris Rodgers *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin

Re: [ITP] editrights

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:51:29PM +0100, Chris Rodgers wrote: [editrights-1.01-1.tar.bz2] usr/ usr/bin/ usr/bin/editrights.exe usr/doc/ usr/doc/Cygwin/ usr/doc/Cygwin/editrights-1.01-1.README Just a minor nit, could you repackage so that the documentation is under usr/share/doc

[ITP] editrights

editrights-1.01-1/Makefile editrights-1.01-1/printntstatus.c [editrights-1.01-1.tar.bz2] usr/ usr/bin/ usr/bin/editrights.exe usr/doc/ usr/doc/Cygwin/ usr/doc/Cygwin/editrights-1.01-1.README Yours Chris Rodgers http://rodgers.org.uk/

Re: Manipulating user privileges (was Re: SSHD, Cygwin and Windows 2003)

for cygrunsrv), controlled by Chris (Rodgers), so that people can submit patches against CVS if need be? Unless Chris plans to release it totally separate from Cygwin... Setting up a CVS repository would be simple. I am happy to store the code in a public CVS repository, especially since I can't

Re: Manipulating user privileges (was Re: SSHD, Cygwin and Windows 2003)

Cool! How you can contribute it depends on the licensing and how much work you are willing to invest. Do you want to put it under some GPL or BSD license? Or do you want to keep everything together as it is? Then create a package as described under http://cygwin.com/setup.html ... Even

Re: ntsec: changing the everyone user

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:35:20PM +0100, Chris Rodgers wrote: OK. Here is an example of the way permissions leak out to Everyone. I create a new file, with no permissions granted to other. Cygwin shows this to have worked OK. Yet in actual fact there is an ACL there giving Everyone some

Re: Manipulating user privileges (was Re: SSHD, Cygwin and Windows 2003)

the above user privileges of an already existing user account. Anybody? Me. I have knocked up a small tool to add/remove/list user rights from the command line. How do I go about contributing this? The current (unpolished) version is at http://rodgers.org.uk/EditRights.zip Chris Rodgers

ntsec: changing the everyone user

to be world readable or even world read-writable. Currently, this translates to giving the Everyone user read or even read-write access within C:\cygwin. Is there a way to map the unix other permissions onto a different Windows 2000 user/group in order to close up this security hole? Yours Chris Rodgers

Re: ntsec: changing the everyone user

OK. Here is an example of the way permissions leak out to Everyone. I create a new file, with no permissions granted to other. Cygwin shows this to have worked OK. Yet in actual fact there is an ACL there giving Everyone some access rights. I usually choose not to have Everyone authorised to do