setting up a xdmcp to ubuntu 11.10 w/lightdm

Does anyone know how to configure cygwin to do xdmcp to the new ubuntu 11.10? It appears to have swapped out the old gdm for lightdm. I found the conf option that supposedly turns it on to listen for xdmcp and see an entry in the lightdm log that says xdmcp reception is enabled but when I try t

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:03:05PM -0800, Kevin Layer wrote: >Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > >>> > This problem is killing me. I'm currently looking msysgit + GnuWin32 >>> > because I just can't take the crashes of bash.exe and git.exe anymore. >>> > In my testing, so far, I've never seen msysgit or

Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 06:51:10PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >On 1/24/2012 5:18 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:26:50AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >>> That would be true if Corinna's entire life is only on this forum. I >>> suspect she might have a little bit more o

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> > This problem is killing me. I'm currently looking msysgit + GnuWin32 >> > because I just can't take the crashes of bash.exe and git.exe anymore. >> > In my testing, so far, I've never seen msysgit or the bash that comes >> > with it crash. Why is it that cygwin ha

Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd

On 1/24/2012 5:18 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:26:50AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: That would be true if Corinna's entire life is only on this forum. I suspect she might have a little bit more of a life outside of this forum and outside of computers. Maybe I'm wrong.

Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd

On 1/24/2012 4:59 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Andrew DeFaria! Would it kill you to be nice and say something like "No it has to be one line. You must be using the wrong key"??? Let me rephrase: Csaba - I wasn't talking to you! Then send your messages privately. And receive adequate re

Re: Use of acl on smb related filesystems

Greetings, Andrew DeFaria! > On 1/24/2012 1:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> It's probably because your FS doesn't support ACLs. Your mount >> output >> >>//fs-irva-82/adefaria on /home/adefaria type netapp (binary,user) >> >> shows that the path points to a NetApp drive. NetApp drives have

Re: Environment Var Problems with Perl - impact on Win32::OLE�

Greetings, Chris Day! > In attempting to move some perl (5.10.1-3) code from a Windows XP (Cygwin > 1.7.9) environment to a Windows Server 2008 R2 (Cygwin 1.7.9 with perl > 5.10.1-3) I seem to have discovered a problem with Cygwin/Perl not resolving > most Microsoft environment strings. > For ex

Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:26:50AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >That would be true if Corinna's entire life is only on this forum. I >suspect she might have a little bit more of a life outside of this forum >and outside of computers. Maybe I'm wrong... As someone who knows Corinna outside of th

Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd

Greetings, Andrew DeFaria! >>> Would it kill you to be nice and say something >>> like "No it has to be one line. You must be using the wrong key"??? >> Let me rephrase: > Csaba - I wasn't talking to you! Then send your messages privately. And receive adequate response. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (an

Re: 1.7.9 : date command fails for year 1900

On 01/24/2012 06:51 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: $ date -d '500 years ago' Now use cal to get a calendar of that month. Do days of the week correspond? Another experiment on your SL box: $ date -d 1752-09-10 This should give an error message, since (in Britain and its Depe

RE: 1.7.9 : date command fails for year 1900

cygwin sent the following at Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:00 AM >I want to thank everybody that responded. It looks like you don't think >this is a bug. Given that date seems to work as I expect on SL 6.0, I >would like to make a feature request: "Fix the date command to actually >respond with the d

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

On 1/24/2012 6:00 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: I wish I could report success like you. Using 20120123, just printing my prompt, which runs "git rev-parse" and "git branch", I saw this (pd is an alias for pushd): thor$ pd /home/scm/acl90b.64 /home/scm/acl90b.64/src/cl/src 7 [main] bash 1732 c:\

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

I wish I could report success like you. Using 20120123, just printing my prompt, which runs "git rev-parse" and "git branch", I saw this (pd is an alias for pushd): thor$ pd /home/scm/acl90b.64 /home/scm/acl90b.64/src/cl/src 7 [main] bash 1732 c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - could

Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd

On 1/24/2012 9:23 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote: Would it kill you to be nice and say something like "No it has to be one line. You must be using the wrong key"??? Let me rephrase: Csaba - I wasn't talking to you! Andrew: I have a Putty key and it has multiple lines. It does not work with sshd. Corin

Problems with UNC filenames passed to bash when called from a windows shortcut

This is hard to explain in words, but here goes... I have noticed that some filenames (with spaces) specified as UNC paths are not passed properly as positional parameters at the cygwin / windows interface. Specifically, I have an XP shortcut to cygwin bash placed in my XP SendTo folder. Bash

Re: Use of acl on smb related filesystems

On 1/24/2012 1:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: It's probably because your FS doesn't support ACLs. Your mount output //fs-irva-82/adefaria on /home/adefaria type netapp (binary,user) shows that the path points to a NetApp drive. NetApp drives have various modes. They can behave like FAT, N

[perl #108948] [RESOLVED] [PATCH] c5e5590 skip sigdispatch.t on cygwin RT#88814

According to our records, your request regarding "[PATCH] c5e5590 skip sigdispatch.t on cygwin RT#88814" has been resolved. If you have any further questions or concerns, please respond to this message. For other topics, please create a new ticket. https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display

Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd

Hi Andrew, On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 01/24/2012 01:57 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: $ man sshd >>> >>> Could you be a bit more vague! ;-) >> >> The sshd manpage contains a chapter about the layout of the >> authorized_keys file.  So what else do you expec

Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd

On 01/24/2012 01:57 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: $ man sshd Could you be a bit more vague! ;-) The sshd manpage contains a chapter about the layout of the authorized_keys file. So what else do you expect? Why more vagueness of course. Otherwise you might be seen as being directly helpful and

Re: ssh pubkey exchange failing at send_pubkey_test

Following up... The guidelines in this message // * /From/: Brian Dessent * /To/: cygwin at cygwin dot com * /Date/: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:07:04 -0700 * /Subject/: Re: sshd [5.1p1] fails on seteuid "permission denied" * /References/: <20080805232342.ga13...@panix.com

Re: ssh pubkey exchange failing at send_pubkey_test

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 1/23/2012 2:22 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> >> When I've seen this before on this list, it's because you are in a domain >> and your user is a domain user.  If that's the case, you want to create a >> domain account to run your sshd

Re: ssh pubkey exchange failing at send_pubkey_test

Greetings, Andrew DeFaria! >> When I've seen this before on this list, it's because you are in a domain >> and your user is a domain user. If that's the case, you want to create a >> domain account to run your sshd server or use a local user to ssh in >> with. >> If this doesn't describe yo

Environment Var Problems with Perl - impact on Win32::OLE‏

Hi All, In attempting to move some perl (5.10.1-3) code from a Windows XP (Cygwin 1.7.9) environment to a Windows Server 2008 R2 (Cygwin 1.7.9 with perl 5.10.1-3) I seem to have discovered a problem with Cygwin/Perl not resolving most Microsoft environment strings. For example, running the fo

Re: 1.7.9 : date command fails for year 1900

On Jan 24 11:00, cygwin wrote: > I want to thank everybody that responded. It looks like you don't > think this is a bug. Given that date seems to work as I expect on SL > 6.0, I would like to make a feature request: "Fix the date command > to actually respond with the date" It's not date's probl

Re: Use of acl on smb related filesystems

On Jan 24 10:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 23 17:38, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > but that doesn't seem to be working. > > It's probably because your FS doesn't support ACLs. Your mount > output > > //fs-irva-82/adefaria on /home/adefaria type netapp (binary,user) > > shows that the path

Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd

On Jan 22 16:30, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 1/22/2012 10:21 AM, Len Giambrone wrote: > >I believe that PuTTy is SSH2, while Cygwin is OpenSSH. You can convert them > >using > >ssh-keygen: > > > >ssh-keygen -f putty_key -i> openssh_key > I tried this. It didn't work. Same error as before. > > Re

Re: 1.7.9 : date command fails for year 1900

I want to thank everybody that responded. It looks like you don't think this is a bug. Given that date seems to work as I expect on SL 6.0, I would like to make a feature request: "Fix the date command to actually respond with the date" Big Props to all you guys that make this software possib

Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd

On Jan 23 12:24, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 1/23/2012 11:38 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jan 23 11:01, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY > >>Comment: "dsa-key-20120121" > >>B3NzaC1kc3MAAACBAMj5GQUtOJvnb7j47Mj7Tfmvx8gKidp1om5c135lFI6+ > >>gslqvjjWbuOBKenYDnYsnwsl4L31

Re: Use of acl on smb related filesystems

On Jan 23 17:38, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > OK I'm starting a new thread here for this different problem. Here's > a problem statement: > > Ltsdo-adefaria:pwd > /home/adefaria > Ltsdo-adefaria:mount | grep adefaria > //fs-irva-82/adefaria on /home/adefaria type netapp (binary,user) > Ltsdo-adefaria:t

Re: isprint core dump

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > From: Eric Blake > >> No, but it DOES come from POSIX: >> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isprint.html >> >> And cygwin's behavior matches POSIX on this point; the bug is in your >> program, not cygwin. > > Call m

Re: Use of acl on smb related filesystems

Greetings, Andrew DeFaria! > A mount point for a remote directory without ACL support: >//server/share/subdir /srv/subdir smbfs binary,noacl 0 0 With native ACL support. (Or absence of it.) Flag "noacl" only means that Cygwin will not try to tap the ACL to mimick the Linux/Unix access masks.

Re: ssh pubkey exchange failing at send_pubkey_test

Greetings, Andrew DeFaria! >> When I've seen this before on this list, it's because you are in a domain >> and your user is a domain user. If that's the case, you want to create a >> domain account to run your sshd server or use a local user to ssh in >> with. >> If this doesn't describe your si