Re: Security advisory: uw-imap - 3 attachments

2005-10-13 Thread Christian Weinberger
> uw-imap (whose maintainer, AFAICS, has yet to respond to reply to > Corinna's message) is vulnerable to remote overflow of a buffer in the > IMAP server leading to execution of arbitrary code. > > The only solution is to upgrade to 2004g (current Cygwin release is > 2002e!). I built 2004g and

Re: shutdown-1.5-1 does not work!

2005-04-23 Thread Christian Weinberger
> Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > Too late. shutdown-1.6-1 should be on the mirrors soon. > > Corinna > shutdown-1.6-1 fixes the problem for me. Regards & many thanks, Christian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwi

Re: shutdown-1.5-1 does not work!

2005-04-22 Thread Christian Weinberger
> > > > Same effect with shutdown-1.5-1 > > root is member of the admin group but does not map to the builtin administrator. > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-04/msg00977.html > > Corinna > I wanted to test if root lacks some of the system priviliges that I assigned to most of my other acco

Re: shutdown-1.5-1 does not work!

2005-04-22 Thread Christian Weinberger
> > Same problem here with the previous version of shutdown: > > - cygwin 1.5.15 > > - shutdown 1.4-1 > > - XP Home SP2 > > - connect via sshd or local on the desktop > > > > Works fine from accounts that are in the admin group, but not for root. > > Same error message (but in german). > > Did yo

Re: shutdown-1.5-1 does not work!

2005-04-22 Thread Christian Weinberger
> Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > On Apr 21 23:52, Angelo Graziosi (D. Zanello) wrote: > > I am tried as Administrator: > > > >Administrator graziosi ~/Downloads/cygwin > >$ shutdown now > >WARNING!!! System is going down NOW > >shutdown: Couldn't shutdown: Error 5 Acce

Re: need help with chroot with cygwin

2005-02-24 Thread Christian Weinberger
João Please post to the list exclusively, so others may assist as well. I don´t have enought time and resources to answer all personal email. See my comments below. Regards, Christian João Carmona schrieb: Hi there, sorry to disturbe you. I retrieve your mail from a mailing list on the web. It seem

Re: scponly for chrooted sftp server in cygwin

2005-02-14 Thread Christian Weinberger
> > [snip] > > and I really had to specify liberty.a manually in the Makefile: > > > > scponly: scponly.o helper.o > > ${CC} ${CFLAGS} ${DEFS} -o $ scponly.o helper.o /usr/lib/libiberty.a > > FWIW, the "approved" way of doing this is > > ${CC} ${CFLAGS} ${DEFS} -o $ scponly.o he

Re: scponly for chrooted sftp server in cygwin

2005-02-11 Thread Christian Weinberger
> I still get the following error during the make phase. > > gcc -g -O2 -I. -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H > -DDEBUGFILE='"/usr/local/etc/scponly/debuglev > el"' -o helper.o -c helper.c > helper.c:174: warning: passing arg 1 of `strdup' makes pointer from > integer with > out a cast >

Re: scponly for chrooted sftp server in cygwin

2005-02-10 Thread Christian Weinberger
> > Now having access to my machine, I can tell you the following: All applies to scponly 3.11 /usr/src/scponly-3.11:{509}:$ diff scponly.c scponly.c.bak 331c331 < char bad_winscp3str[] = "test -x /usr/sbin/sftp-server && exec /usr/sbin/sftp-server test -x /usr/local/lib/sftp-server && exe

Re: scponly for chrooted sftp server in cygwin

2005-02-10 Thread Christian Weinberger
> I am attempting to setup and sftp server on a windows XP pro machine. I have > the latest cygwin and openssh files from cygwin.com. I downloaded the > scponly > source files and am now attempting to compile them. I get the following > error > message: > helper.c:12:36: libgen.h: No such

Re: tee piping to head gives error message (also with snapshot 20050206)

2005-02-08 Thread Christian Weinberger
Here's > a test on a file with 4207 lines in it. > > dk mace /artimi/firmware> cat diffs.txt | tee tmp2.txt | head -4100 > /dev/nu > ll > tee: write error > dk mace /artimi/firmware> cat diffs.txt | tee tmp2.txt | head -4100 > /dev/nu > ll > dk mace /artimi/firmware> cat diffs.txt | te

Re: How to start a Win gui app on remote server

2005-02-07 Thread Christian Weinberger
Alexander The solution works, but be aware that there is a drawback running sshd in interactive mode: Whenever a user logs off from the server PC with the windows logoff function, windows ends all currently running ssh sessions. Search the list for a more detailed explanation. Regards, Christia

Re: Limitation in SCP?

2004-12-15 Thread Christian Weinberger
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > Hmm, that doesn't happen for me. I tried to copy around a 200 Megs file > between WinXP and XP<->Linux multiple times and don't see any hang. Did > you try with Cygwin 1.5.12, too? > > Corinna Is it possible the cygwin has a more generic problem here? T

Re: Chrooted OpenSSH for Windows (rssh sftp cygwin)

2004-11-30 Thread Christian Weinberger
John M. L. recaffeinated.com> writes: > I've been trying to implement an sftp server using OpenSSH for Windows > (http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net). I haven't found much recent discussion > on th topic of running OpenSSH in a chrooted jail on cygwin, but the > following messages from a year ago

uw-imap & Cygwin secrets revealed, at least a bit!

2004-11-28 Thread Christian Weinberger
The initial problem was: - uw-imap on cygwin ran well with Outlook Express - but hung upon connection when using Outlook 2003 In the end I made it to get it work with the following workaround: In inetd.conf, I donÂt start the daemon directly, but use the following wrapper script. #!/bin/sh tee

Re: UW-IMAP Problem with Outlook 2003

2004-11-19 Thread Christian Weinberger
Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > Since OE and Outlook are almost certainly have the same shared codebase, > it's entirely possible that problems have propagated from OE to Outlook 2k3. Sorry, but from all that I know, this is not the case. In fact, OEÂs IMAP implementation seems to be much bette

Re: UW-IMAP Problem with Outlook 2003

2004-11-19 Thread Christian Weinberger
Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > > Datapoint: Lots of people report bugs in Outlook 2k3 imap handling. > I know that Outlook 2003 has a somewhat crippled IMAP implementation, but in the uw-imap mailing list I saw reports that in principal it runs with uw-imap server. Regards, Christian PS: c

UW-IMAP Problem with Outlook 2003

2004-11-19 Thread Christian Weinberger
Outlook 2003 will not connect properly to my UW-IMAP server. Everything works fine with Outlook Express, but Outlook 2003 hangs as soon as it tries to connect to UW-IMAP leaving two UW-IMAP processes running. I use UW-IMAP with cram.md5 authentification together with inetd. All packages are updat

env -i specialities on cygwin

2004-09-03 Thread Christian Weinberger
If one wantÂs to start a new process without an environment, env -i will be the choice. In the cygwin enviroment this leads to problems if /bin or /usr/bin are not added to the PATH in the new process. In this case the cygwin1.dll is not in the path and will not be found be the process that just tr

Re: Squid "Too many files"

2004-04-07 Thread Christian Weinberger
Hardy If you do a search for "squid RLIMIT patch", you should find my posting describing a binary patch to fix squid. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/40135 Regards, Christian Hardy Jonck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I have searched for a fix for the squid p

Re: cygrunsrv taking near all cpu time

2004-03-07 Thread Christian Weinberger
Gregory Borota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > From your message I understand the problem is caused by Panda > Antivirus > not cygrunsrv > That seems to me more a philosophical question. The development team may decide if they consider it worth the time looking in

Issues with NOD32 and fetchmail

2004-03-05 Thread Christian Weinberger
If you want to use fetchmail and use the NOD32 virus scanner, make sure that you set NOD32 IMON service for email scanning to the least intrusive stage (Highest compatibility). The other two settings corrupted my emails which is quite a bad thing if you do an automated processing on them. Rega

Re: cygrunsrv taking near all cpu time

2004-03-04 Thread Christian Weinberger
> - Original Message - > From: "Larry Hall" cygwin.com> > > > > 1. Turn off your anti-virus and see if that helps. > > I had exaclty the same issue with Panda Antivirus. It happened with Panda 2004 and with the recend version of the old release, I think 2.0.5. Older versions worked fi

mutt 1,4,1-2 problem with snapshot 2004-01-23

2004-01-24 Thread Christian Weinberger
due to the snapshot. Christian Weinberger -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: Maildir Support broken with Mutt 1.4.1?

2003-11-23 Thread Christian Weinberger
> Maildirs have never actually worked properly because they use > filenames which are not POSIX compatible, and were apparently > specifically designed to cause grief for Windows and Mac systems. > Compounding this problem, I erroneously suggested people use Maildirs > in older versions, before I

Re: perl localtime returns gmttime

2003-11-21 Thread Christian Weinberger
Kirill Yarosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I have update perl to 5.8.2 . > After that i did find symptomatic insane behaviour of "local" function. > Now it returns GMT time. > > Kirill. > Same problem with me. Only way to solve this was to go back to 5.6. Based on the

Re: Maildir Support broken with Mutt 1.4.1?

2003-11-14 Thread Christian Weinberger
> Unfortunately the mutt version 1.4-1 doesn't find the cygcrypto.dll > and cygssl.dll while there are only cygcrypto-0.9.7.dll and > cygssl-0-9-7.dll. If I rename these dlls mutt dumps and I didn't test > any further. But I would like to use a cygwin-supported mutt with > maildir support to. > >

Maildir Support broken with Mutt 1.4.1?

2003-11-09 Thread Christian Weinberger
After upgrading to Mutt 1.4.1 I was no longer able to access my emails properly. As soon as a new mail arrived in the main folder (inbox), I could not even close mutt properly. It always gives me the error "rename file or folder does not exist (error=2)" in the status bar. It seems to me that M

Squid Patch for Cygwin 1.5

2003-11-04 Thread Christian Weinberger
After some investigation I found an interim solution to get the current cygwin squid version (2.4-STABLE7) working with the new 1.5 DLL series. This has been tested and works for me with 1.5.5, but should work with all 1.5 versions. A posting from Tom Oehser gave the necessary input: The proble

Re: Segmentation Fault of ssh3.7.1 with cygwin1.5.5-1 in W95.

2003-10-31 Thread Christian Weinberger
Rodrigo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I have been using cygwin 1.3.22 in a W95 machine with no problems. > I am now installing cygwin 1.5.5 in another W95 machine. I get the > following crash: > > bash-2.05b$ ssh -l rmedina pion > Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Re: Segmentation Fault of ssh3.7.1 with cygwin1.5.5-1 in W95

2003-10-31 Thread Christian Weinberger
Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >> I observed a ssh crash on Win95 too, but only after running >> ssh-host-config It went away after deleting the two ssh 22/ lines in >> c:\windows\services They don't seem to end with CRNL. > > Ouch. I see why that happ