On Fri, May 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM Mark Liam Brown wrote:
> What is the official procedure to uninstall Cygwin properly? Just
> deleting C:\cygwin64 from Explorer yields lots of "malformed ACL
> warnings", and the registry still contains traces of Cygwin64
If the malformed ACLs bother you, reset own
On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM Jim Garrison wrote:
> I just ran across this today. In a normal session all my remote mounts
> (NTFS, file server running Win10) are visible. In a session that is
> "Run as administrator", none of the mounts are visible.
>
> Is there a configuration parameter that
On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM David wrote:
> Unsurprisingly, setup-x86_64.exe always posts error messages on completion:
>
> Package: 0/Perpetual
> 0p_000_autorebase.dash exit code -1073741819
> 0p_update-info-dir.dash exit code -1073741819
> Package: _/Unknown package
>
On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM Jose I Cabrera wrote:
My windows account just changed from e608313 to u618346 and I would like to
> use the old setup that I had on the old account under the new account in
> cygwin. How is this possible? Thanks.
>
This may be possible by using the native Windows
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM Marco Atzeri wrote:
Lester,
> it seems to me that you have a clear problem in COMMUNICATION. Do NOT
> reply to me only. Reply to the mailing list.
>
> I am NOT your personal support HOTLINE.
> This is the last advise.
>
Indeed. Here are some other references that m
On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 5:02 AM Cedric Blancher wrote:
Is it possible to modify Cygwin sshd to support logins into user SYSTEM?
>
What problem are you solving?
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On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 6:37 AM Cedric Blancher wrote:
We have a Win10 env with mixed local and domain accounts.
> We cannot lookup up local AND domain users with just the plain
> username from Windows. Instead we have to do lookups twice:
>
I don't know the Cygwin solution, but here's a short Po
On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 8:38 AM Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote:
Thanks. However, even after reading the document, I still didn't
> understand what strings I should set the members for auth for SMB...
>
> For example, as for Endpoint, the example for ncacn_np is mentioned,
> but not for ncacn_ip_tcp
On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 2:18 AM Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote:
I'm working on this, however, I stuck on setting the first parameter
> of AuthzInitializeRemoteResourceManager(). The most members of structure
> AUTHZ_RPC_INIT_INFO_CLIENT are PWSTR, and I have no idea what kind of
> string should be
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 1:08 AM Jim McNamara via Cygwin wrote:
I am just trying to rule out if norton is blocking me.
>
> I cant seem to get some code to execute in cygwin environment.
>
Remember that nobody can see your screen.
Vague questions like this are generally unanswerable.
You will gen
On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 12:50 PM Csaba Ráduly wrote:
Plus, it sounds like a global solution to a local problem:
> https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20081211-00/?p=19873
>
Good point. Parsing 'net use' output is not the correct way, or even a very
good way, to get the requested informatio
On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 8:57 AM Mark Liam Brown wrote:
Basically I need every bit of information out of "net use", "net
> config", "net statistics", "net view" and so on, parse it in bash or
> perl, process it in bash, and output it in JSON format from the bash
> script for our (Linux-based) admin
On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 7:45 AM Mark Liam Brown via Cygwin wrote:
I am trying to parse the output of "net use" in a bash script, but hit
> a roadblock:
> The output of "net use" changes with the language of the system
> (English, Danish, French, ...), so parsing becomes nearly impossible
>
> How c
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 6:25 AM Lemons, Terry via Cygwin wrote:
Vulnerability scanners run at my company have detected the following
> vulnerability in the Cygwin sshd:
>
> CVE-2024-6387CVSS 3: 8.1
>
> OpenSSH could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the
> system, caused by a
On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 5:21 PM Dan Shelton wrote:
How can someone run explorer as Admin then?
>
I believe the point of the design was to prevent exactly that (as already
noted, for security reasons).
Bill
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On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 9:36 PM Dan Shelton wrote:
> Does anyone know how to run Windows explorer.exe with Cygwin
> /bin/newgrp, so all new files created by explorer.exe use that new
> primary group, and all programs launched by explorer.exe use that same
> primary group?
>
As I understand it, E
On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 8:29 PM Dan Shelton wrote:
Just a couple of ideas:
> - Native Windows doesn't have an easy way to list group memberships
> for the current user, so a WinSG -l to list available groups would be
> good
>
Maybe you weren't aware of it - 'whoami /groups'
> - WinSG should be
On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 3:54 PM Martin Wege wrote:
Can Cygwin be installed as a normal user (without Admin rights) in a
> nonstandard location, like C.\Users\martinwege\cygwinroot36\...)?
>
> Also, can this be done for more than one Cygwin version, e.g. I'd like
> to test multiple Cygwin versions
On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 5:25 PM Dan Shelton wrote:
On Sat, 20 Apr 2024 at 05:37, Brian Inglis via Cygwin
> wrote:
> > Under MS Windows you can use Sysinternals WinObj64 to browse the
> hierarchy and
> > objects.
>
> What is that?
>
Perhaps search for "winobj64" ?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 5:40 AM Christian Franke wrote:
Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
>
> > For Cygwin apps, this occured when you built, say, an executable under
> > Windows 8.1 before Windows 10 support was added to the Cygwin toolchain:
> > the manifest linked to the Cygwin executable didn
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 10:21 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Mar 19 09:18, Bill Stewart via Cygwin wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure of the exact scenario that led to the "RtlGetVersion is
> > subject to manifesting" conclusion, but I can't reproduce it.
>
>
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 9:01 AM Richard Campbell wrote:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 9:04 AM Bill Stewart via Cygwin
> wrote:
>
> > Can you please clarify the circumstances under which the RtlGetVersion
> > function "may not return the correct values"?
>
> "Ori
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 4:21 AM Christian Franke wrote:
Cygwin uses the undocumented RtlGetNtVersionNumbers() from ntdll.dll
> because even RtlGetVersion() may not return the correct values. See
> function wincapc::init()
>
> https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=winsup/cygwin/winca
On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 7:50 AM Andrey Repin wrote:
> (I ask because PowerShell has been a built-in part of the Windows since
> > Windows 7--that's over 14 years ago as I write this.)
>
> Since Windows XP.
>
You must not be remembering correctly. PowerShell wasn't a built-in part of
Windows until
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 7:42 AM Cedric Blancher wrote:
How can I get the group SID for a file in cmd.exe (powershell is not an
> option)?
>
Why is PowerShell not an option?
(I ask because PowerShell has been a built-in part of the Windows since
Windows 7--that's over 14 years ago as I write this
On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 10:07 AM Mainz, Roland wrote:
Is there any documentation how Cygwin 3.5.0 can be automatically (without
> GUI and user intervention, e.g. via *.bat script) be installed as part of a
> CI (Continuous integration) build environment ?
>
Have you looked at cygwin.com?
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 9:51 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin
wrote:
Is there a cmd.exe clone for Windows which supports UNC paths?
>
No, and this is because cmd.exe already supports UNC paths. I have been
using UNC paths in cmd.exe for many years.
It might help to describe your problem rather than a
On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 7:53 AM Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote:
I have a new Win11 PC, and I wanted to capture the same Cygwin setup that I
> have in another Win10 PC. I copied the C:\cygwin64 folder from the Win10 pc
> to the Win11 pc, then I downloaded a fresh setup-x86_64.exe from
> cygwin.com to th
On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 5:32 PM Mark Geisert wrote:
Speculation: The specific exit code 0xC142 may or may not have
> something to do
> with Windows error 142, which is ERROR_BUSY_DRIVE. I cannot help further
> on this.
>
Correction: The low word of 0xC142 = hex 142 = decimal 322 =
ERROR_D
On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 8:52 AM Bill Stewart wrote:
On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 7:01 AM Andrew Schulman wrote:
>
> > How can I find out whether the current Cygwin terminal has
>> > Administrator rights? I want to safeguard our admin scripts with a
>> > simple test an
In that reference: "The CheckTokenMembership function simplifies the
process of determining whether a SID is both present and enabled in an
access token."
As an example, I wrote a little Windows program called 'elevate' that has a
'-t' option to test whether the cur
On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 9:00 AM Thomas Schweikle wrote:
It is the address of one of the distribution servers. Since this is not
> "one server", but a cluster of servers, your "suspicious" server shows
> only one thing: those "suspicious" flags are suspicious by themselves:
>
> this particular serv
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 2:15 AM ASSI wrote:
Windows really doesn't have a defined notion of what is or is not an
> "administrator". Each particular definition will be insufficient or
> invalid in certain contexts.
>
There is a definition of administrator in Windows: Your account is a
member, eit
On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 5:12 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I'm puzzled because I'm an idiot.
>
That's one thing you certainly are not.
Bill
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Un
y problems here.
>
> ...
>
> - Fix reinstall via command line (thanks to Bill Stewart for helping to
> identify this is a regression in 2.919)
>Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-March/253352.html
>
(amended subject line)
Seems to be working in my testing. Thank you!
B
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:55 PM Jon Turney wrote:
Sorry, based on the previous discussion at [1] this seems to be broken
> at the moment, due to '-x' being broken.
>
> [1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-February/252994.html
>
> If you really need this, please try old setup versions from
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 2:18 PM Bill Stewart wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 6:32 AM Jon Turney wrote:
>
>
>> If a package is listed for both -x and -P, it is reinstalled, so while
>> not ideal, you might be able to achieve something like what you want
>> with 's
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 6:32 AM Jon Turney wrote:
> If a package is listed for both -x and -P, it is reinstalled, so while
> not ideal, you might be able to achieve something like what you want
> with 'setup -I -x "package1,package2,package3" -P
> "package1,package2,package3"'
>
> An option which
On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 1:06 PM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Yeah, quoted paths were not handled at all. I pushed a new version
> 1.64 which contains a patch.
>
Great; thanks!
Bill
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FYI:
In our corporate environment we run vulnerability scans, and one of the
most common complaints of the scanner is "unquoted service paths."
To fix this "vulnerability," I use a quoted service path for cygrunsrv.exe;
e.g.:
"C:\Program Files\Cygwin\cygrunsrv.exe"
This seems to confuse cygruns
On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 9:21 AM Sylwester Rutkowski wrote:
The setup-x86_64.exe is reported as malicious at
> https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/edd0a64dc65087ffe453ca94b267169b39458a983b29ac31320fcaa983d0f97e/detection
>
> Can this be resolved somehow?
This is, of course, a false positive.
The
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 7:18 AM Michel Robitaille wrote:
Running setup-x86_64.exe (version 3.3.6) requires an app on Windows 11
> (fully up to date).
> It is looking for an app that does not exist with Microsoft Store.
>
What app is it requiring?
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On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 6:23 AM Brent Epp wrote:
I would think so too, but that doesn't appear to be happening. If it
> makes a difference, the SID actually starts with S-1-5-21. I have to
> manually take ownership in order to even access the files at all.
>
Explained another way: According to
htt
On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 6:44 AM Brent Epp wrote:
In the [Security] tab for these files or directories, under "Group or
> user names", it lists the owner as "Account Unknown(S-...)". In some
> cases, these files are completely inaccessible and I can't even take
> ownership or change the permissions
On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 12:30 PM Monica Parker wrote:
Hi,
> I just want to know if there is an MSI installer file? If not, can one be
> created? Im trying to create a package for SCCM and it wont accept exe
> files.
>
There is no MSI package; sorry.
Bill
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On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 3:02 PM julie77793 wrote:
Cygwin doesn't create an environment variable in bash to indicate that the
> platform is Cygwin under Windows.
>
FYI, as a point of decorum: The subject line of this thread is rather
undiplomatic.
(Bug usually means "software should do X but fails
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 3:49 PM Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via
Cygwin wrote:
Windows protected your PC
> Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting.
> Running this app might put your PC at risk.
>
[Responding to mailing list]
Not to state the obvious, but
On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 8:19 AM Iyana Garry wrote:
Is there any confirmation that Cygwin software is not impacted by the
> Apache Log4J vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046 and
> CVE-2021-45105)?
>
I'm not sure why there would need to be any such confirmation. Log4J is a
Java applicati
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 8:28 AM Strasser, Dominik (DI SW ICS ICV) wrote:
I know that this is the standard installation. But we absolutely need
> passwordless login. So this was the workaround we found.
> The number of groups differs when sshd is run as local system, and when
> authorized_keys exis
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 3:11 PM Bryan VanSchouwen wrote:
WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON WITH THIS SOFTWARE?!
>
I don't know what the technical problem is, but I would politely point out:
1. Typing things in all caps is considered shouting
2. Shouting at the people who might be able to help you is p
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 1:28 PM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
This is not the right place to discuss this in detail, but to me, a
> straightforward and sensible approach would have been to give the 64
> bit system dir another name right from the start:
>
> C:\Windows\System64
>
That would not have wo
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:47 AM Corinna Vinschenwrote:
> A sane assumption is for instance, if you cd to foo, that your in foo.
> That's what the FSR breaks in a thorough way. I. e. on WOW64:
>
> $ cd /cygdrive/c/Windows
> $ ls -1d Sys*
> SysWOW64
> System
> System32
> SystemApps
>
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 3:20 AM Corinna Vinschen wrote:
The problem here is the File System Redirector,
>
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winprog64/file-system-redirector
>
> This thing is really a problem because it break every, otherwise
> sane assumption. Hmm, bummer. I need
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 12:06 PM Bill Stewart wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 6:31 AM Ilya Basin via Cygwin wrote:
>
> > The problem is solved.
> > Our DHCP server was sending me a bad WINS server ip. After fixing the issue
> > I had to reboot the PC (just refre
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 6:31 AM Ilya Basin via Cygwin wrote:
> The problem is solved.
> Our DHCP server was sending me a bad WINS server ip. After fixing the issue I
> had to reboot the PC (just refreshing the ip and restarting cygsshd was not
> enough).
It's doubtful a reboot is required. Prob
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 11:23 AM matthew patton wrote:
> can we fix setup.exe to read STDIN with '-P', like so?
> echo 'pkg1,pkg2,pkg3' | setup.exe -P -
What problem does this solve for you?
PowerShell example, if you're not familiar:
$packages = 'pkg1','pkg2','pkg3'
setup -P ($packages -join '
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 6:21 PM art wrote:
>
> I get a security code 5 when ssh-host-config tries to install cygsshd. I was
> logged into Win 10 pro/x64 as an admin user. The "fix" was to start a
> Cygwin64 Terminal with Admin and then run ssh-host-config within this script.
> Other installers h
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 6:34 AM Eliot Moss wrote:
> Is there a Windows equivalent to chroot (either the program or the
> library/system call)?
See: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/highlights.html
Quoting:
"Chroot is supported. Kind of. Chroot is not a concept known by
Windows. This implies som
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 3:08 PM Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> /usr/bin/exim-config has line with:
>
> cygrunsrv -I exim -p /usr/bin/exim -e CYGWIN="${cygenv}" ...
>
> So it is the answer (as pointed by others).
>
> Still "procexp" doesn't show anything else besides PATH/WINDIR for "exim"
> process.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 1:09 PM Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> What way can I pass env var "CYGWIN" to the Cygwin service?
cygrunsrv --help shows this:
-e, --env Optional environment strings which are added
to the environment when service is started. You can add up to 255
environment strings usi
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 2:25 PM Erik Soderquist wrote:
> I've had weird instances where the Windows Firewall tools lied; I
> confirmed this by temporarily shutting down the Windows Firewall
> entirely, then restarting the service having problems and retesting.
> On retest, it worked fine, confirmi
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 1:51 PM Charles Russell wrote:
> Selecting "Advanced Settings" and then "incoming rules", I see one rule
> for sshd private: enabled, allowed and one rule for sshd public:
> enabled, allowed. There is a third rule for sshd domain: (disabled,
> allowed). I believe that one i
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 10:44 AM Charles Russell wrote:
> The last line was a giveaway. The problem is with the Windows firewall.
> However, I have found no remedy apart from totally disabling the
> firewall. The old settings no longer work: sshd is enabled for both
> private and public networks,
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 12:25 AM Thomas Wolff wrote:
> > and please note that SysNative appears nowhere!
>
> That's because Sysnative is not a known folder. It is rather unknown
> just because it is virtual :)
> And that is the problem I tried to address. In cygwin32, you can `cd
> $WINDIR/Sysnati
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 4:42 PM tealhill via Cygwin wrote:
> Therefore, I am suggesting that Cygwin work around Microsoft's omission.
> My suggested workaround is for Cygwin to add Sysnative to its own
> $PATH, automatically.
I don't think that should be a default behavior in cygwin and is
likely
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 1:37 AM Thomas Wolff wrote:
> > Cygwin can be expected to run on all modern, released versions of Windows,
> > from
> > Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Server 2008 and all later versions of
> > Windows, except Windows S mode due to its limitations. The 32 bit version
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 7:58 AM Chris Bovitz wrote:
Cygwin can be expected to run on all modern, released versions of Windows.
> State [sic] January 2016 this includes Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008
> and all later versions of Windows up to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.
>
> To me, this i
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 3:30 PM Wayne Davison wrote:
Something like this seems to work fine (with very minimal testing):
>
> @echo off
> PATH=C:\cygwin64\bin
> C:\cygwin64\bin\tar %*
>
Keeping in mind that cmd.exe provides no environment variable scoping using
scripts, I would recommend setlocal/e
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 11:40 AM Douglas Coup wrote:
I did try copying all of the .dll files in the Cygwin bin folder to the
> same folder where the copy of Cygwin's tar.exe sits.
>
Why is this step necessary? Is the cygwin install process not working?
Bill
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 8:58 AM Douglas Coup wrote:
But if I use tar from a DOS window ...
>
Surely you don't mean DOS? DOS doesn't exist in Windows any more (unless
you are using an emulator like DosBox or a VM).
Do you mean a cmd.exe console window? (cmd.exe is a Windows console-mode
program th
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:37 AM Subramanya Narayanaswamy via Cygwin wrote:
Has anyone faced the same issue I'm facing now ? After installation of
> CYGWIN I tried to run command to start cygsshd in CYGWIN terminal with
> Admin privalages and facing the below error. Any help would be great thanks!
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 12:21 PM Subramanya Narayanaswamy via Cygwin wrote:
When I run Cygwin.bat file and try to configure SSH host service to connect
> from Agent server on this windows host, I don't get a prompt to create
> CYGWIN user at all. By default it is taking the SYSTEM default user for
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 7:46 PM wrote:
> Thank you very much !
>
> I didn't see anybody mention that attrib step, in all the _many_ docs
that i read.
You're welcome. This is probably because file attributes are not actually
security attributes.
(As an aside: Please remove the responder's email
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 6:34 PM wrote:
the cygwin home folder is giving me a LOT of trouble with access denied.
>
> i've tried takeown and icacls to fix permissions, and strangely it worked
> for _Some_ files, but i still have files which i need to back up which are
> causing "access denied" erro
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 9:37 AM Watson, Christian M. (GRC-V000)[Peerless
Technologies Corp.] wrote:
We appreciate the reply. We are looking to use this software on a NASA
> facility and that is why we sent you the questions we did to comply with
> our security restrictions. If you could tell us wh
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 8:58 PM Marco Atzeri wrote:
> specially as 3.1.3 was NOT building under cygwin
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14365
...and that would be why 3.1.3 hasn't been available for Cygwin. Thanks.
For the benefit of others: In that bug report, Wayne Davison (rsync
m
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 2:19 PM Ken Brown wrote:
> The latest stable release, 3.1.3, is two years old. I'm sure Jari had good
> reasons for wanting to make a more recent version available.
Right; except that 3.1.3 is not available for Cygwin (despite its age)
- at least, it doesn't appear as an
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 1:20 PM Andrey Repin wrote:
> > When I run rsync --version, I see this:
> >
> > rsync version 3.2.0dev protocol version 31
> >
> > However the Cygwin Setup program says that my rsync is current and is
> > listed as this version:
> >
> > 3.1.3+20200429+gitf7746d0-1
> >
> >
When I run rsync --version, I see this:
rsync version 3.2.0dev protocol version 31
However the Cygwin Setup program says that my rsync is current and is
listed as this version:
3.1.3+20200429+gitf7746d0-1
rsync.samba.org says the current version is 3.1.3.
So...what's actually the latest? Wha
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 1:00 PM Thomas Wolff wrote:
> The Cygwin package manager (setup) in the description of the ssh-pageant
> package:
> "SSH agent for Cygwin/MSYS that links to PuTTY's Pageant"
The language is a bit imprecise, I suppose. Pageant is related to but
!= PuTTY - you don't have to
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 7:56 AM KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT) wrote:
> Are you sure that a setup that is automated with a silent
> installation, but it still displays a progress popup, it cannot fail
> if it is not able to display that window when there is no user
> logged in? I am not, hence I
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 2:08 AM KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT) wrote:
> s/silent/verysilent/g>
> ---
> /SILENT, /VERYSILENT Instructs Setup to be silent or very silent.
> When Setup is silent the wizard and the background window are not
> displayed but the installation progress window is
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 2:09 PM Christopher Faylor wrote:
> With mailman, if you click on a message in the archives and then click
> on the email address at the top, your mail client of choice will be
> opened with correct "In-Reply-To" set. If you want to reply to the list
> then replace the "To
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 12:11 PM Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 4/20/2020 1:41 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
>
> > This exact problem is one of the main reasons why many organizations
> > prefer a web-based forum rather than a mailing list. (NNTP is a
> > possibility, but many [most?]
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:20 AM Stephen Carrier wrote:
> I think the OP's first question was asking how to effectively join
> an existing thread when one is browsing the recent archives and not
> subscribed to the list.
>
> Joining the list after seeing a question one would like to answer
> doesn
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 1:01 AM KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT) wrote:
> This is the way that we are pushing the packages currently to
> end users is through software managers with silent
> installation.
My point is that "silent" doesn't mean "no visible GUI." It generally
means "the installer
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 2:25 AM KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT) wrote:
> > From: Cygwin On Behalf Of Bill Stewart
> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 9:03 AM KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT) wrote:
> >
> > > I have already requested a feature to totally remove any GUI fro
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 8:35 AM Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2020-04-15 04:44, Mail Delivery System via Cygwin wrote:
> > This is the mail system at host sourceware.org.
> > I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
> > be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.
> >
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 9:03 AM KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT) wrote:
> wrapped in a nice "setup-x86_64.bat" that is executed by the
> installation Powershell script. That command is still popping up a
> progress window, but it was removed by our Landesk configuration.
> You may check if yours h
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 8:01 PM Kevin Schnitzius wrote:
> sshd: PID 1721: fatal: seteuid 1610619958: No such device or address
>
> I just did a clean install:
> openssh 8.2p1-1
>
> The uid corresponds to me:
> uid=1610619958(+kevins)
>
> Local users work fi
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 5:52 PM Jason Pyeron wrote:
> I continue to see failures of authentication (both PKI and password
> based) on local vs domain accounts. In fact I have rarely seen two
> sshd installs that are configured the same way.
I would recommend reviewing the Cygwin and sshd versions
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 2:54 PM Jason Pyeron wrote:
> Is there a replacement? It is a very common question.
I would guess that this entry could simply be removed?
I don't think there's any special configuration needed anymore just
because a machine is a domain member.
Bill
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Problem reports:
It would seem that the following FAQ entry ("How do I setup sshd in a
domain?") is now obsolete:
https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.sshd-in-domain
Bill
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On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:35 AM Ernie Rael wrote:
> I just downloaded most recent setup-x86_64, v2.903. Avast was not happy.
>
> Threat name: IDP.Generic
>
> I did check with pgp2 --verify before I tried it.
Report it to Avast as a false-positive.
Bill
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 4:24 AM Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 01:04, L A Walsh wrote:
> >
> > On 2020/02/27 14:30, Brian Inglis wrote:
> > > No, you must backport all sources to the current and all previous versions
> >
> > What all previous versions? Going back to year
On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 4:09 PM Robert McBroom wrote:
> > Did you search the most obvious place for information?
> > https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html
> >
> That is the list of mirrors not a howto on becoming a mirror
That page formerly had a blurb at the bottom on how to become a
mirror. This shoul
On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 9:47 AM Hashim Aziz wrote:
> I see. Do you know how I would go about resolving this, as I am using an
> Administrator account and have never run into any other issues reading,
> writing or otherwise making changes to those drives.
As a side point: It is important to under
On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 3:04 PM Bill Stewart wrote:
> > As Takashi explained, there is no fix on the cygwin side. It could be
> > fixed on the Windows side, within the ConPTY API.
> > You could report it there...
>
> Thanks - found this:
>
> https://github.com/mic
On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 1:43 PM Thomas Wolff wrote:
> > With disable_pcon set:
> >
> > echo "$PATH" -- wraps correctly
> > cmd /c echo %PATH% -- wraps correctly
> > winpty cmd /c echo %PATH% -- wrapping broken
> >
> > Without disable_pcon set:
> >
> > echo "$PATH" -- wraps correctly
On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 8:52 AM Takashi Yano wrote:
> Thomas Wolff wrote:
> > With ConPTY support, the following command results in output that
> > contains an explicit newline at the auto-wrap position:
> > cmd /c echo a line which is wider than your terminal ...
> >
> > For copy/paste, this is su
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