Re: NTSEC db_home

2015-04-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 17 10:07, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > I'm having a little trouble with the db_home: setting at work > (corporate network, not using /etc/passwd or /etc/group). Regarding: > > https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch-home > > I tried &quo

NTSEC db_home

2015-04-17 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
I'm having a little trouble with the db_home: setting at work (corporate network, not using /etc/passwd or /etc/group). Regarding: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch-home I tried "db_home: /%H" and although my MINTTY session started in the co

Re: sshd -- "Note that the CYGWIN=ntsec setting is required for public key authentication"

2009-09-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 14 14:29, Dmitry Semyonov wrote: > Hello all, > > I recently had to switch CYGWIN environment of sshd service from > 'ntsec' to 'nontsec' (because of 'sed -i' breaking inherited access > rights to some files used by native Windows apps). All se

sshd -- "Note that the CYGWIN=ntsec setting is required for public key authentication"

2009-09-14 Thread Dmitry Semyonov
Hello all, I recently had to switch CYGWIN environment of sshd service from 'ntsec' to 'nontsec' (because of 'sed -i' breaking inherited access rights to some files used by native Windows apps). All seem to work fine after the change, including public key logins to

Re: CYGWIN=ntsec, "cp -a", and NT acls

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Walker
Thanks for your patience, Brian. -Rob Brian Dessent wrote: Rob Walker wrote: [RGW] Hm, looks simple... Why isn't this part of "cp -a" ? You have to understand the history of things. In the classic unix world, a file has an owner, a group, a mode, and several timestamps. From the

Re: CYGWIN=ntsec, "cp -a", and NT acls

2008-12-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Rob Walker wrote: > [RGW] Hm, looks simple... Why isn't this part of "cp -a" ? You have to understand the history of things. In the classic unix world, a file has an owner, a group, a mode, and several timestamps. >From the standpoint of what "cp -a" can manipulate portably, that's basically i

Re: CYGWIN=ntsec, "cp -a", and NT acls

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Walker
Brian Dessent wrote: Rob Walker wrote: The output of the examination above shows me that "cp -a" doesn't preserve Full Control for the owner on the copied file. Is this the expected behavior under ntsec? If I use CYGWIN=nontsec, Full Control is preserved. Well cp is

Re: CYGWIN=ntsec, "cp -a", and NT acls

2008-12-05 Thread Rob Walker
t preserve Full Control for the owner on the copied file. Is this the expected behavior under ntsec? If I use CYGWIN=nontsec, Full Control is preserved. Well cp is a POSIX program and it has no idea what Windows style NT ACLs are. It preserves the Unix modes of the file, in other words it

Re: CYGWIN=ntsec, "cp -a", and NT acls

2008-12-05 Thread Brian Dessent
l Control for the owner on the copied file. Is this the > expected behavior under ntsec? If I use CYGWIN=nontsec, Full Control is > preserved. Well cp is a POSIX program and it has no idea what Windows style NT ACLs are. It preserves the Unix modes of the file, in other words it sees 0555 on

Re: PING ntsec [was RE: Can't start cron daemon in Cygwin 1.5.23 under WinXP SP2]

2007-01-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 26 12:00, Dave Korn wrote: > On 26 January 2007 09:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > once in a while? It's outdated (Dave?) > > Hi, haven't forgotten but got a bit overloaded. I'll try and finish a first > draft this weekend. Cool, thanks! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

PING ntsec [was RE: Can't start cron daemon in Cygwin 1.5.23 under WinXP SP2]

2007-01-26 Thread Dave Korn
On 26 January 2007 09:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > once in a while? It's outdated (Dave?) Hi, haven't forgotten but got a bit overloaded. I'll try and finish a first draft this weekend. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: NTSEC documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Jay Abel
AM Subject: Re: NTSEC documentation put me at number 10 on your list. If you don't get a number 1-9, I suppose I am it. Jay - Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" To: the list Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 12:18 AM Subject: NTSEC documentation Is anybody here wi

Re: NTSEC documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Jay Abel
put me at number 10 on your list. If you don't get a number 1-9, I suppose I am it. Jay - Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 12:18 AM Subject: NTSEC documentation Is anybody here with a deve

IRC client (Was RE: NTSEC documentation)

2007-01-08 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Dave Korn wrote: > (Plus I don't have any irc software installed...) FYI, naim comes with an IRC client (called 'nirc'). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZ

RE: NTSEC documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Dave Korn
On 08 January 2007 14:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 8 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:53:30PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> >>> Other than that, bug me in PM if you think something's maybe not correct >>> anymore. >> >> Would this be a good use of the

Re: NTSEC documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
developer background, who likes writing > >> > documentation? > >> > > >> > If so, would this person be interested in revamping the NTSEC > >> > documentation with my input? It shows its age, my lacking knowledge of > >> > the english language and it'

Re: NTSEC documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
> > If so, would this person be interested in revamping the NTSEC >> > documentation with my input? It shows its age, my lacking knowledge of >> > the english language and it's also very strangly ordered. >> >> I've got some spare tuits coming up,

Re: NTSEC documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 8 12:29, Dave Korn wrote: > On 08 January 2007 10:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Is anybody here with a developer background, who likes writing > > documentation? > > > > If so, would this person be interested in revamping the NTSEC > > documentat

RE: NTSEC documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Dave Korn
On 08 January 2007 10:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Is anybody here with a developer background, who likes writing > documentation? > > If so, would this person be interested in revamping the NTSEC > documentation with my input? It shows its age, my lacking knowledge of > th

NTSEC documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Is anybody here with a developer background, who likes writing documentation? If so, would this person be interested in revamping the NTSEC documentation with my input? It shows its age, my lacking knowledge of the english language and it's also very strangly ordered. In general, if somebo

Re: File permissions screwy (chown - chmod - ssh - rsync - ntsec??)

2006-10-24 Thread psyjoniz
e dir to a local one (for default .ssh key files to have the right permissions). with everything else i'm concerned with being local this is acceptable. *thank you* -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/File-permissions-screwy-%28chown---chmod---ssh---rsync---ntsec--%29

Re: File permissions screwy (chown - chmod - ssh - rsync - ntsec??)

2006-10-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
kpasswd -d > /etc/passwd mkgroup -d > /etc/group i've set (in both .bash_profile [set CYGWIN=ntsec;export $CYGWIN;] and global env for xp) :: reboot :: cygwin cmd line results.. //----// [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo $CYGWIN ntsec [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: File permissions screwy (chown - chmod - ssh - rsync - ntsec??)

2006-10-24 Thread psyjoniz
disregard my insistence that ssh and rsync do not exist in the setup list. i just ran it again and it is there. i may just go home for the day. :/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/File-permissions-screwy-%28chown---chmod---ssh---rsync---ntsec--%29-tf2503531.html

File permissions screwy (chown - chmod - ssh - rsync - ntsec??)

2006-10-24 Thread psyjoniz
yes, i have searched. i've run: mkpasswd -d > /etc/passwd mkgroup -d > /etc/group i've set (in both .bash_profile [set CYGWIN=ntsec;export $CYGWIN;] and global env for xp) :: reboot :: cygwin cmd line results.. //----// [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: ntsec

2006-04-22 Thread Dave Korn
On 22 April 2006 22:59, Robert Thomas beau Hayes Link wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:52:41PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> Do you mean some magical force siezes control of your body and stops you >> from typing every time you go to enter the word "chmod"? > Thanks for your tongue-in-cheek tong

Re: ntsec

2006-04-22 Thread Robert Thomas beau Hayes Link
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:52:41PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > Do you mean some magical force siezes control of your body and stops you > from typing every time you go to enter the word "chmod"? Thanks for your tongue-in-cheek tongue-lashing. I'll spend some time getting my head around cygcheck an

RE: ntsec

2006-04-22 Thread Dave Korn
. Well, that eliminates one possibility, only infinity minus one left to go! > I believe this is > an ntsec issue, but just haven't been able to get my head around exactly > what is going on. If you have no idea what's going on, what are your grounds for thinking i

ntsec

2006-04-21 Thread Robert Thomas beau Hayes Link
Greetings, I've poked around in the faqs and other docs but have not been able to solve my proble, which is that for the first time in serveral cygwin installs I a not able to chmod 755 any of my files. I believe this is an ntsec issue, but just haven't been able to get my head arou

Re: chmod not working after setting ntsec in CYGWIN environment variable

2006-03-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Terrence Brannon wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.ssh > $ export CYGWIN=ntsec In addition to what Dave and Eric already mentioned, "ntsec" is the default behavior (and has been for many years) so setting "CYGWIN=ntsec" does essentially nothing. Brian -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: chmod not working after setting ntsec in CYGWIN environment variable

2006-03-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Terrence Brannon on 3/24/2006 10:05 AM: > Why won't chmod work even after setting CYGWIN properly? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.ssh > $ ls -l > total 9 > -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence mkgroup-l-d 1675 Mar 14 10:02 id_rsa > -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence mkgro

RE: chmod not working after setting ntsec in CYGWIN environment variable

2006-03-24 Thread Dave Korn
On 24 March 2006 17:05, Terrence Brannon wrote: > Why won't chmod work even after setting CYGWIN properly? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.ssh > $ ls -l > total 9 > -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence mkgroup-l-d 1675 Mar 14 10:02 id_rsa > -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence mkgroup-l-d 396 Mar 14 10:02 id_rsa.pub > -rw-r--r-- 1

chmod not working after setting ntsec in CYGWIN environment variable

2006-03-24 Thread Terrence Brannon
EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.ssh $ echo $CYGWIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.ssh $ export CYGWIN=ntsec [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.ssh $ echo $CYGWIN ntsec [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.ssh $ chmod -v 600 id_rsa mode of `id_rsa' changed to 0600 (rw---) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.ssh $ ls -l id_rsa -rw-r--r-- 1 terrence mkgroup-l-

RE: ls.exe hangs on inaccessible directory if ntsec is turned off

2006-03-06 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 March 2006 20:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I've applied a fix. Please test. > WJFFM. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Do

Re: ls.exe hangs on inaccessible directory if ntsec is turned off

2006-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 21:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > At one point in opendir() a file handler is added to the descriptor > table. This happened at a point at which it was already clear that > opendir would succeed. Due to my changes from end of January this > wasn't true anymore. The entry in the descript

Re: ls.exe hangs on inaccessible directory if ntsec is turned off

2006-03-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 3 17:38, Christian Franke wrote: > Hi, > > with the current cygwin1.dll 20050203, ls.exe hangs on access of an > inaccessible directory if ntsec is turned off. > > Steps to reproduce on XP Prof: > > $ CYGWIN=ntsec ls "/cygdrive/c/System Volume Informat

RE: ls.exe hangs on inaccessible directory if ntsec is turned off

2006-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 March 2006 19:39, Dave Korn wrote: > On 03 March 2006 17:13, Dave Korn wrote: > >> On 03 March 2006 16:39, Christian Franke wrote: > >>> Steps to reproduce on XP Prof: > >>> $ CYGWIN=nontsec ls "/cygdrive/c/System Volume Information" >>> ls: /cygdrive/c/System Volume Information: Permissi

RE: ls.exe hangs on inaccessible directory if ntsec is turned off

2006-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 March 2006 17:13, Dave Korn wrote: > On 03 March 2006 16:39, Christian Franke wrote: >> Steps to reproduce on XP Prof: >> $ CYGWIN=nontsec ls "/cygdrive/c/System Volume Information" >> ls: /cygdrive/c/System Volume Information: Permission denied >> # *** ls hangs with 100% CPU *** >> >> B

RE: ls.exe hangs on inaccessible directory if ntsec is turned off

2006-03-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 March 2006 16:39, Christian Franke wrote: > Hi, > > with the current cygwin1.dll 20050203, ls.exe hangs on access of an > inaccessible directory if ntsec is turned off. > > Steps to reproduce on XP Prof: > > $ CYGWIN=ntsec ls "/cygdrive/c/System Volume I

ls.exe hangs on inaccessible directory if ntsec is turned off

2006-03-03 Thread Christian Franke
Hi, with the current cygwin1.dll 20050203, ls.exe hangs on access of an inaccessible directory if ntsec is turned off. Steps to reproduce on XP Prof: $ CYGWIN=ntsec ls "/cygdrive/c/System Volume Information" ls: /cygdrive/c/System Volume Information: Permission denied # OK $ CYGWIN=

RE: chmod not working with ntsec set

2006-01-11 Thread Matthew Pittman
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Igor Peshansky > Sent: Thursday, 12 January 2006 1:54 PM > To: Matthew Pittman > Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: chmod not working with ntsec set > > > Ugh, top-posti

RE: chmod not working with ntsec set

2006-01-11 Thread Igor Peshansky
;http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > Subject: Re: chmod not working with ntsec set > > > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Matthew Pittman wrote: > > > > > I know this is a dumb question but I have made genuine efforts to > > > understand what I'

RE: chmod not working with ntsec set

2006-01-11 Thread Matthew Pittman
But this is a WAG too. Any ideas where I go from here? Regards, Matt. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Igor Peshansky Sent: Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:54 PM To: Matthew Pittman Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: chmod not working with ntse

Re: chmod not working with ntsec set

2006-01-11 Thread Igor Peshansky
pressed on regardless but I found I couldn't get chmod to work so I > searched the documentation, web and mailing list archives and found that > I should set the CYGWIN environment variable to "ntsec". I also noted > that this should now be the default anyway but I set it

chmod not working with ntsec set

2006-01-11 Thread Matthew Pittman
entation, web and mailing list archives and found that I should set the CYGWIN environment variable to "ntsec". I also noted that this should now be the default anyway but I set it anyway and it hasn't solved the problem. $ echo $CYGWIN ntsec $ chmod -v u+x .bas

Re: "ssh-host-config -y" w/CYGWIN set to ntsec..; ssh works but CYGWIN *not* set

2005-05-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 25 09:08, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > This is a change to sshd which had been requested upstream. The main > > developers felt that propagating all SYSTEM environment to the > > unprivileged child applications has to be treated as unsecure. >

Re: "ssh-host-config -y" w/CYGWIN set to ntsec..; ssh works but CYGWIN *not* set

2005-05-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 24 22:27, Brian Dessent wrote: > > David Rothenberger wrote: > > > > > I have CYGWIN set in my sshd service and globally to "server", but when > > > I ssh to my machine, CYGWIN is empty: > > > > > > % echo $CYGWIN > > > server > > > % ssh local

Re: "ssh-host-config -y" w/CYGWIN set to ntsec..; ssh works but CYGWIN *not* set

2005-05-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 24 22:27, Brian Dessent wrote: > David Rothenberger wrote: > > > I have CYGWIN set in my sshd service and globally to "server", but when > > I ssh to my machine, CYGWIN is empty: > > > > % echo $CYGWIN > > server > > % ssh localhost > > Last login: Wed May 4 20:20:04 2005 from localhost >

Re: "ssh-host-config -y" w/CYGWIN set to ntsec..; ssh works but CYGWIN *not* set

2005-05-24 Thread Brian Dessent
David Rothenberger wrote: > I have CYGWIN set in my sshd service and globally to "server", but when > I ssh to my machine, CYGWIN is empty: > > % echo $CYGWIN > server > % ssh localhost > Last login: Wed May 4 20:20:04 2005 from localhost > % echo $CYGWIN Hmm, weird. I see the same thing here

Re: "ssh-host-config -y" w/CYGWIN set to ntsec..; ssh works but CYGWIN *not* set

2005-05-24 Thread David Rothenberger
On 5/24/2005 10:04 PM, Brian Dessent wrote: I could be wrong here but I thought that setting of $CYGWIN for the service affects only the environment of the actual service, not for the general cygwin environment. If you want the CYGWIN environment variable set to a certain value globally, just se

Re: "ssh-host-config -y" w/CYGWIN set to ntsec..; ssh works but CYGWIN *not* set

2005-05-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Tom Rodman wrote: > I've upgraded to 1.5.16, and installed the latest openssh, using > the "ssh-host-config -y" script. I specified CYGWIN be set to: > > binmode tty ntsec smbntsec > > When I logon w/simple password authentication, CYGWIN is undefined: >

"ssh-host-config -y" w/CYGWIN set to ntsec..; ssh works but CYGWIN *not* set

2005-05-24 Thread Tom Rodman
I've upgraded to 1.5.16, and installed the latest openssh, using the "ssh-host-config -y" script. I specified CYGWIN be set to: binmode tty ntsec smbntsec When I logon w/simple password authentication, CYGWIN is undefined: bash-2.05b $ ssh localhost -l adm_tsr [EMA

How to ensure every file/dir has Administrators permissions? (ntsec, passwd, group)

2005-01-19 Thread Bert-Steffen Visser
I'm using ntsec on ntfs. The thing is when users restrict group and world access to their files (umask 077 or chmod g-rwx,o-rwx), the administrators group is also locked out. Very unpractical for automated backups running from the administrator account. Now, I would like every file/dir cr

RE: SSH, SFTP, and NTSEC

2004-12-28 Thread Bryan Love
N Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 3:19 PM To: Bryan Love; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: SSH, SFTP, and NTSEC >My problem is simple... I have users that I created that cannot log in via >SSH unless I make them >members of the Windows ADMINISTRATORS group on the >Windows 2003 server tha

RE: SSH, SFTP, and NTSEC

2004-12-27 Thread D N
My problem is simple... I have users that I created that cannot log in via SSH unless I make them >members of the Windows ADMINISTRATORS group on the Windows 2003 server that is running >Cygwin.  I've tried everything I can think of and lots of stuff from other people that I could never >have

SSH, SFTP, and NTSEC

2004-12-27 Thread Bryan Love
I've researched this topic online for days and it seems like every one has their own solution or their own idea about how user authentication works in Cygwin. What I CAN'T seem to find is a simple description of exactly what happens when a user tries to log in via SSH.  What is the flow of Cygw

Re: ntsec: changing the everyone user

2003-09-22 Thread Larry Hall
instead. >This >> > way, without a valid login, you cannot get any information, including >> > usernames and ACLs. >> > >> > How can I stop cygwin setting these ACLs? >> >> Did you have a close look to the acc

Re: ntsec: changing the everyone user

2003-09-22 Thread Chris Rodgers
cluding > > usernames and ACLs. > > > > How can I stop cygwin setting these ACLs? > > Did you have a close look to the access rights granted to everyone? > Otherwise, just don't use ntsec. > > Corinna > > > [...] > >

Re: ntsec: changing the everyone user

2003-09-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
> > How can I stop cygwin setting these ACLs? Did you have a close look to the access rights granted to everyone? Otherwise, just don't use ntsec. Corinna > [...] > Everyone:(special access:) > READ_CONTROL >

Re: ntsec: changing the everyone user

2003-09-15 Thread Chris Rodgers
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

Re: ntsec: changing the everyone user

2003-09-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:58 AM 9/15/2003, Chris Rodgers you wrote: >Hi > >I have hunted on the web for a while trying to find a solution, but to no >avail. If any of you can help me, I'd appreciate it. > >I am using Cygwin on Windows 2000 with the NTsec permissions enabled on an >NTFS volum

ntsec: changing the everyone user

2003-09-15 Thread Chris Rodgers
Hi I have hunted on the web for a while trying to find a solution, but to no avail. If any of you can help me, I'd appreciate it. I am using Cygwin on Windows 2000 with the NTsec permissions enabled on an NTFS volume. My problem is that some of the Cygwin tools I use require certain files

Re: Controversial what if.... we disable ntsec by default again?

2003-08-14 Thread Doug VanLeuven
Why isn't ntsec a mount option? Max Bowsher wrote: Having ntsec on by default has shown us that the imperfect mapping between ACLs and file modes can cause a *lot* of problems. Essentially, for ntsec to be useful, a fair amount of caring for permissions is required. New users are ofte

Re: Controversial what if.... we disable ntsec by default again?

2003-08-14 Thread Mark Priest
Max, What problems is ntsec causing? I am a relatively new user and I have not had any problems with it. In fact it is allowing me to host a more secure ssh server installation. I have been following the list for a couple of months and I have not seen many problems relating to ntsec. Most of

Controversial what if.... we disable ntsec by default again?

2003-08-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Having ntsec on by default has shown us that the imperfect mapping between ACLs and file modes can cause a *lot* of problems. Essentially, for ntsec to be useful, a fair amount of caring for permissions is required. New users are often not prepared for this. Hence: what about making ntsc off by

Re: Controversial what if.... we disable ntsec by default again?

2003-08-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Mark Priest wrote: > Max, > > What problems is ntsec causing? I am a relatively new user and I have not > had any problems with it. In fact it is allowing me to host a more secure > ssh server installation. I have been following the list for a couple of > months and I

Re: Controversial what if.... we disable ntsec by default again?

2003-08-06 Thread Larry Hall
Doug VanLeuven wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 06:46:05AM -0700, Doug VanLeuven wrote: Why isn't ntsec a mount option? The standard reason. Which is the standard reason? 1. It's that way because nobody has coded it yet. 2. It's that way becaus

Re: Controversial what if.... we disable ntsec by default again?

2003-08-06 Thread Doug VanLeuven
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 06:46:05AM -0700, Doug VanLeuven wrote: Why isn't ntsec a mount option? The standard reason. Which is the standard reason? 1. It's that way because nobody has coded it yet. 2. It's that way because the core team analyzed

Re: Controversial what if.... we disable ntsec by default again?

2003-08-06 Thread Larry Hall
Max Bowsher wrote: Having ntsec on by default has shown us that the imperfect mapping between ACLs and file modes can cause a *lot* of problems. Essentially, for ntsec to be useful, a fair amount of caring for permissions is required. New users are often not prepared for this. Hence: what about

Re: Controversial what if.... we disable ntsec by default again?

2003-08-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 06:46:05AM -0700, Doug VanLeuven wrote: >Why isn't ntsec a mount option? The standard reason. -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be permanently bloc

Re: How to tell if ntsec is on or off

2003-07-23 Thread Larry Hall
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:54:06AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23 Jul, I wrote: I was going to qualify this with `when ntsec is defined in CYGWIN' It's not easy to find out if ntsec is turned on, is it? When I wrote the ab

Re: How to tell if ntsec is on or off

2003-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:54:06AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>On 23 Jul, I wrote: >> >>>I was going to qualify this with `when ntsec is defined in CYGWIN' >> >> >>It's not easy to find out if ntsec is turned on,

Re: How to tell if ntsec is on or off

2003-07-23 Thread Larry Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23 Jul, I wrote: I was going to qualify this with `when ntsec is defined in CYGWIN' It's not easy to find out if ntsec is turned on, is it? When I wrote the above, I was thinking "ntsec turned on" means $CYGWIN includes the word "ntse

How to tell if ntsec is on or off

2003-07-22 Thread luke . kendall
On 23 Jul, I wrote: > I was going to qualify this with `when ntsec is defined in CYGWIN' It's not easy to find out if ntsec is turned on, is it? When I wrote the above, I was thinking "ntsec turned on" means $CYGWIN includes the word "ntsec". But I think I

Re: OpenSSH + Public Key Auth + ntsec

2003-07-08 Thread Mark Priest
John, I am using Cygwin and sshd with public key authentication on a Windows XP Professional machine and I am seeing the same ACL behavior that you are. I have set the CYGWIN environment variable to "ntsec nontea" "nontsec ntea" and "nontsec nontea". These settings

Re: OpenSSH + Public Key Auth + ntsec

2003-07-08 Thread John
000 perms. We have reformatted these machines and done fresh installs and yet the corruption happens all over again on every machine using cygwin & ssh. If there were a way to not use ntsec and use inherited permissions via nontsec, that would be stellar. Thanks again, John On Tue, 8 Jul 2003,

Re: OpenSSH + Public Key Auth + ntsec

2003-07-08 Thread andrew brian clegg
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, John wrote: > CYGWIN="binmode ntsec tty". > > When making directories via ssh: > ssh "mkdir /cygdrive/d/temp/test" > or when copying files via scp: > scp file.txt :/cygdrive/d/temp/test > > the files are given the "ntsec&

OpenSSH + Public Key Auth + ntsec

2003-07-08 Thread John
Hello, We are running openssh 3.5p1 with public key authentication working with no problems. Currently, we have sshd running with the following: CYGWIN="binmode ntsec tty". When making directories via ssh: ssh "mkdir /cygdrive/d/temp/test" or when copying files via scp: scp

RE: CYGWIN NTsec permissions over inet - cannot see SMB drives with SSH login

2003-06-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Jason, If you have seen my messages on the Cygwin list, you should have noticed that the Reply-To field on all of them is set to the Cygwin list. In fact, the Cygwin list is the preferred method for getting Cygwin help and information, as opposed to sending e-mail to individual contributors. This

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
during remote acess. There has > been some insight on what the problem seems to be in regards to the > version of Cygwin. My question is regards to a immediate work-around > this permissions issue with inetd/xinetd ? > > Thanks everyone for taking the time in looking into this issue. >

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Banville, Stephen
Cygwin. My question is regards to a immediate work-around this permissions issue with inetd/xinetd ? Thanks everyone for taking the time in looking into this issue. Steve Fwd: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet] From: Larry Hall To: Cygwin Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 23:33:51 -0400 Subject

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Banville, Stephen wrote: > Bruce, > This is starting to become clear o what is actually going on. > How do you currently get around this issue ? > > Steve Steve, Please either quote the message you're replying to, or make sure your mailer contains threading informatio

NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Banville, Stephen
Bruce, This is starting to become clear o what is actually going on. How do you currently get around this issue ? Steve -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.h

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2003-06-03 Thread Larry Hall
Original Message Bruce Dobrin wrote: YIKES! There it is, and right there in the users guide no less not only that, but in a section I've actually read a number of times!. Well, that does explain almost everything that is going on ( though, it seems to have

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Bruce Dobrin
quot; convert everything to windows") I'd really appreciate it.. In any case, Thanks Igor, for the time spent already.. Bruce D. - Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Umm, Bruce, you aren't trying to access network shares from a session you did with passwordless authentication, are you? Because if you are, it's not going to work (see <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-RELEASE1.3.3>). I've also found that even if you log

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Martin Gainty
- Original Message - From: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 8:04 PM Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet > I tried executing a the command vi

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Bruce Dobrin
hen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 12:37 PM Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet > hmmm, still experimenting: thought it might have something to do with > inetd and mounts, but I also tried rlogin to which is running >

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Steve, On Windows, if you use the Windows sharing mechanism (instead of a proprietary filesystem driver), your shares are SMB shares (which stands for Server Message Block, IIRC). The 'smbntsec' option is designed for those kinds of shares. Methinks the documentation w

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Bruce Dobrin
27;Bruce Dobrin'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Banville, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 5:32 AM Subject: RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet > Igor, > I tried settting smbntsec and it did not work. With older version I > used to > just

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-02 Thread Banville, Stephen
Igor, I tried settting smbntsec and it did not work. With older version I used to just set ntsec, make the passwd and group files, and everything would just work the way I would expect. Something has changed in the way cygwin handles NT security. I am running a generic version of windows

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
to have extra privileges to be able to switch user context (create an access token belonging to someone else). <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-SETUID> should explain this somewhat. Igor On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Stephen Banville wrote: > HI Bruce, > > Th

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-02 Thread Stephen Banville
brin Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 8:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet OK, further testing, I can't get the below rlogin "trick" to work on a 1.3.22 machine, the one it worked on is actually a 1.3.12 machine. so, with 1.3.12 I can get it to wor

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-31 Thread Bruce Dobrin
e confused than ever... - Original Message - From: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:46 PM Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet > Sorry, On re-reading that, it's not as clear as it could b

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-31 Thread Bruce Dobrin
CTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:37 PM Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet > Thanks for responding Larry, > > I actually had tried most permutations of (no)ntsec, (no)smbntsec, (no)ntea, > etc... and on other m

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-31 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Thanks for responding Larry, I actually had tried most permutations of (no)ntsec, (no)smbntsec, (no)ntea, etc... and on other machines that didn't have weird path or passwd entries. -- no dice I think I may have a good hint as to what is going on, but I'll need someone who knows

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-30 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Dobrin - Original Message - From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Banville, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 6:54 AM Subject: Re: NTsec permiss

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-30 Thread Banville, Stephen
Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 9:52 AM To: Banville, Stephen Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet Banville, Stephen wrote: > My system that I have Cygwin running on is a Windows 2000 platform. I h

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-29 Thread Banville, Stephen
t: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 4:26 PM To: Banville, Stephen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet On Wed, 28 May 2003, Banville, Stephen wrote: > Hi All, > I'm not sure if this issue has been detected. I have traversed > through the MANY probelm

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-29 Thread Banville, Stephen
ECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 8:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Banville, Stephen Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet Stephen, I was about to ask the same question If you find a solution, PLEASE Post, as I'm running out of workarounds, I have had no luck with nosmbntsec/smbnt

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-29 Thread Michael Schaap
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: For the future, please *attach* the cygcheck output to avoid generating false positives on message archive search. Random idea: would it be possible to instruct ezmlm-idx to bounce messages containing cygcheck output in the body? (Or enough text to identify cygcheck

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