File permission hassles on Vista

[Joe Krahn]

I have been running Cygwin on Vista. The way that file attributes are 
handled are causing problems. Cygwin appears to add attributes for 
'Everyone' and a 'None' user to handle world and group POSIX attributes. 
On Vista, these attributes give the file a 'shared' property, which adds 
a shared file overlay on the GUI icons. If you try to manipulate files 
from the Windows GUI, things become VERY slow. It can take minutes just 
to move just a few files. It seems that the system is trying to keep 
track of shared files, and gets confused about files made shared by 
Cygwin. Maybe it is the indexing service?


I am guessing that Cygwin developers just are not using Vista yet, 
because I have seen very little discussion of this problem. Until this 
problem is resolved, an easy fix might be to avoid adding the extra 
attributes groups as long as they have no permissions. A Vista user can 
set umask to 077, and avoid making those attribute groups.


Another quick work-around would be to have a command-line tool to strip 
out the extra permission attributes. Is there a tool in cygwin that can 
manipulate win32 file attributes? I thought maybe 'chatter' would do it, 
but those attributes are apparently independent of Win32 attributes. If 
Cygwin doesn't have anything like this, I think it would be a good Win32 
utility to include (i.e. sort of like regtool).


Thanks,
Joe Krahn

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[Jari Aalto]

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Re: ssh and vista

[Mark Rutten]

> 
> Is this a known problem, or is vista my problem?
> 

I am somewhat embarrased to say that I did an update of the firmware on my 
wireless router and the problem seems to have disappeared.  So it wasn't a 
cygwin or a vista problem, but a network one.


  
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PStree on cygwin

[Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi]

Hi all,

I tried to find the pstree package in Cygwin setup list but it was not
included. Does Cygwin community yet to deploy pstree / no plan to
release it?

I found it useful when I did demo of forked process for certain PID
(pstree -p ) to the students in my class.

Regards,
najmi

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Re: PStree on cygwin

[DePriest, Jason R.]

On Nov 4, 2007 9:00 PM, Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I tried to find the pstree package in Cygwin setup list but it was not
> included. Does Cygwin community yet to deploy pstree / no plan to
> release it?
>
> I found it useful when I did demo of forked process for certain PID
> (pstree -p ) to the students in my class.
>
> Regards,
> najmi
>

http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=pstree

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Re: ssh/pubkey authentication and use of subst

[Greg M]

I'm running into this, too - albeit with a System error 59. I need to
"interact with the desktop" too, which won't happen unless I run the sshd as
System (although I couldn't find anything documenting this limitation beyond
the cygrunsrv error message). Seems I can have any two of authorized_keys,
desktop interaction and network file-systems, but unfortunately I need all
three. :(

So I'm wondering if this is just an accepted problem or something that could
potentially be worked around in Cygwin. Or am I better off building a local
workaround? (triggering commands via a polled database instead of ssh) It
sounds like you (Corinna) don't hold out much hope, and consider it to be a
Windows bug rather than a Cygwin issue, is that right? In that case maybe
it'll never be fixed.

Or maybe we just don't know how to configure our Windows boxes properly, our
expertise is very much on the Unix side. But it doesn't feel (to a Unix
type) like I'm trying to do anything all that tricky.
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