Re: [ITA] - base-files base-passwd

2010-09-17 Thread Andy Koppe
On 17 September 2010 21:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 17 21:23, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 17 September 2010 15:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> 5 As stated in the referenced thread, there is no way to prevent attackers >> >> to create a user's home dir before she/he logins the first time othe

Re: [ITA] - base-files base-passwd

2010-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 17 21:23, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 17 September 2010 15:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> 5 As stated in the referenced thread, there is no way to prevent attackers > >> to create a user's home dir before she/he logins the first time other than > >> disallowing anyone but the Administrator to d

Re: [ITA] - base-files base-passwd

2010-09-17 Thread Andy Koppe
On 17 September 2010 15:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> 5 As stated in the referenced thread, there is no way to prevent attackers >> to create a user's home dir before she/he logins the first time other than >> disallowing anyone but the Administrator to do that. >> If the proposed workaround (issu

Re: [ITA] - base-files base-passwd

2010-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 17 18:47, David Sastre wrote: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:50:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > What's wrong with the proposed patch? The only problem I have with it > > is the fact that it uses tr and sed to find out what shell it's running > > in. There is probably a way to do this

Re: [ITA] - base-files base-passwd

2010-09-17 Thread David Sastre
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:50:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 17 13:59, David Sastre wrote: > > > > Regarding the ITA of these packages, and the proposed patches, I have > > some thoughts to share and discuss before I repackage them. > > > > 2 http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg0

Re: [ITA] - base-files base-passwd

2010-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 17 13:59, David Sastre wrote: > Hello, > > Regarding the ITA of these packages, and the proposed patches, I have > some thoughts to share and discuss before I repackage them. > > 1 http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-04/msg00521.html > case sensitivity of system32 dir (win7 and vista) >

Re: [ITA] - base-files base-passwd

2010-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:59:32PM +0200, David Sastre wrote: >4 Can we consider this? what are the circular dependencies in that scenario? >AFAICT, including base-passwd in base-files, and afterwards dropping >base-passwd dependencies anywhere else should be harmless. Unless Corinna disagrees, I'

[ITA] - base-files base-passwd

2010-09-17 Thread David Sastre
Hello, Regarding the ITA of these packages, and the proposed patches, I have some thoughts to share and discuss before I repackage them. 1 http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-04/msg00521.html case sensitivity of system32 dir (win7 and vista) 2 http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg00503.html