On Jan 27 12:24, Ilguiz Latypov wrote: > > The current cyglsa-config script does not detect a failure in regtool that > cannot read the LSA Authentication Packages registry entry, > > $ regtool get > /HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Lsa/Authentication\ > Packages > Error (2): The system cannot find the file specified. > > $ cat > /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Lsa/Authentication\ > Packages > > $ reg query 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa' /v > 'Authentication Packages' > > ! REG.EXE VERSION 3.0 > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa > Authentication Packages REG_SZ msv1_0 > > As a consequence, cyglsa-config drops "msv1_0" from the key value because it > succeeds in setting it with the wrong set of values. > > (I am not sure why my entry has type REG_SZ while I see online posts > mentioning type REG_MULTI_SZ). > > Whether regtool and cyglsa-config are fixed or not, I am suggesting to > document the side effects resulting from the corrupt entry value or from the > possible bugs in the added DLL. I spent many hours trying to find the cause > of these effects. The suggested documentation addition is attached.
Here's another idea. Since you're the one having the problem and being able to reproduce it, why don't you fix the cyglsa-config script instead to recognize this situation and handle it gracefully? That would be much more helpful than a longish paragraph explaining what could go wrong if it goes wrong. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
