Re: Adding standard service dependences in sshd-host-config? (Was Re: [SOLVED] Re: zone alarm service depency problem with sshd)

2005-12-02 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Corinna Vinschen_, on 12/02/2005 10:26 AM,typed: On Dec 2 10:17, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Would it make sense to change ssh-host-config to include the "tcpip" and "vsmon" dependencies automatically? Corinna? It could have been so easy to find if you could just stop full quotin

Re: cygwin file permissions change after installation

2005-12-01 Thread H. S.
Brian Dessent wrote: "H. S." wrote: As you mention, there are so many sites that tell you to do chmod system:system that it made wonder what was the real deal behind this. In fact it is required that certain files and directories be owned by the user that runs sshd (which in mos

Re: 1.5.18: commands don't work after Cygwin update

2005-12-01 Thread H. S.
Shaun Gittens wrote: I just upgraded Cygwin on Windows XP. The previous version I was running (I installed it in Jan 2005) worked fine. Now, post-upgrade, almost no commands work at the prompt of the bash shell. bash-3.00$ ls bash: ls: command not found bash-3.00$ cygcheck bash: cygch

Re: how to detect if Windows or Linux is running?

2005-12-01 Thread H. S.
Brian Dessent wrote: "H. S." wrote: er .. how can I do that using SSH and non-interactively? The same way you'd run any ssh command? if ssh host uname \| grep -q CYGWIN; then echo "it's running cygwin"; else echo "it's not runnin

Re: cygwin file permissions change after installation

2005-12-01 Thread H. S.
Brian Dessent wrote: "H. S." wrote: Am I supposed to make any changes to certain files's permissions after installing Cygwin? I installed Cygwin (ver 1.5.18-1) and noticed that many websites suggesting changing certain files' permissions to system:system. This installati

Re: how to detect if Windows or Linux is running?

2005-12-01 Thread H. S.
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: H. S. wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:07:15PM -0500, H. S. wrote: Hi, I have installed Cygwin on a Windows XP computer to get rsync and ssh running so that I can backup my important data on a Linux computer on my home LAN

Re: how to detect if Windows or Linux is running?

2005-12-01 Thread H. S.
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:07:15PM -0500, H. S. wrote: Hi, I have installed Cygwin on a Windows XP computer to get rsync and ssh running so that I can backup my important data on a Linux computer on my home LAN. The idea is to use rsync to make rolling backups of

how to detect if Windows or Linux is running?

2005-12-01 Thread H. S.
Hi, I have installed Cygwin on a Windows XP computer to get rsync and ssh running so that I can backup my important data on a Linux computer on my home LAN. The idea is to use rsync to make rolling backups of my Windows data automatically, say, once or twice a day and to retain last N backup

cygwin file permissions change after installation

2005-12-01 Thread H. S.
Hi, Am I supposed to make any changes to certain files's permissions after installing Cygwin? I installed Cygwin (ver 1.5.18-1) and noticed that many websites suggesting changing certain files' permissions to system:system. This installation was on Windows XP computer. I ask because I notic

Re: how to make ssh-agent automatically

2005-11-30 Thread H. S.
Morche Matthias wrote: Simpler than using keychain and ssh-agent, Hmm... did You ever try to just generate your key by ssh-keygen and then copy the public key ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub eg to Your remote host into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Would You consider this to be simpler? matthias (Yes, I have do

[SOLVED] Re: zone alarm service depency problem with sshd

2005-11-30 Thread H. S.
H. S. wrote: Hi, I am trying to have sshd running on my Windows XP box. I have Zone Alarm installed, ver. 6.0.667. I configured sshd with: $> ssh-host-config and started as a service: $> cygrunsrv -S sshd which promptly made Zone Alarm to ask if sshd should be allowed internet acc

zone alarm service depency problem with sshd

2005-11-30 Thread H. S.
Hi, I am trying to have sshd running on my Windows XP box. I have Zone Alarm installed, ver. 6.0.667. I configured sshd with: $> ssh-host-config and started as a service: $> cygrunsrv -S sshd which promptly made Zone Alarm to ask if sshd should be allowed internet access. I allowed it's clie