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Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 19:13:05 -0700 From: me To: patches list Subject: add uninstall of cyglsa to FAQ diff -r1.30 faq-setup.xml 475a476,484 > <listitem><para>If you installed <literal>cyglsa.dll</literal> by running the > shell > script <literal>/usr/bin/cyglsa-config</literal> as described in > <ulink url="http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html"; />, then you need to > configure > Windows to stop using the LSA authentication package. You do so by editing > the registry > and restoring > <literal>/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Lsa/Authentication > Packages</literal> > back to it's original value of <literal>msv1_0</literal>, and then rebooting. > </para> > </listitem> On Wed 2013-11-06 13:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On Nov 5 09:41, Tom Schutter wrote: > > I was attempting to uninstall all of Cygwin when I ran into a snag. I > > couldn't delete bin/cyglsa/cyglsa.dll because it was referenced by > > LSASS. I was able to fix the problem by restoring the > > /HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Lsa/Authentication > > Packages registry entry back to it's default value of msv1_0, > > rebooting, and then removing cyglsa.dll. > > > > But the point of this email is that I think this step should be added > > to the Cygwin FAQ 2.19 "How do I uninstall all of Cygwin?". > > you're right. Would you like to provide a patch to faq.xml? > > > Thanks, > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat -- Tom Schutter -- 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
