Re: ls/stat on OneDrive causes download of files

2024-03-08 Thread Jeffrey Altman via Cygwin
On 3/8/2024 7:52 AM, Thomas Wolff via Cygwin wrote: Am 08.03.2024 um 11:37 schrieb Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin: Hi Jeffrey, On Mar  6 13:55, Jeffrey Altman via Cygwin wrote: On 3/6/2024 12:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: We can add an explicit call to

Re: ls/stat on OneDrive causes download of files

2024-03-06 Thread Jeffrey Altman via Cygwin
rhaps the question that needs to be asked is whether there are opens that can be skipped if an object is known to not be locally present (either of the FILE_ATTRIBUTE flags are set)? Jeffrey Altman -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.c

Re: Cygwin generates syscalls for *.lnk files on filesystems with native symlink support?

2024-01-08 Thread Jeffrey Altman via Cygwin
object on which the reparse tag was applied.   This breaks many applications such as the java runtime among others. Jeffrey Altman -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: Cygwin/Win32 utility function to convert "raw" IPv6 address string into *.ipv6-literal.net string ?

2023-09-28 Thread Jeffrey Altman via Cygwin
On 9/28/2023 1:56 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] via Cygwin wrote: What do you think that output is - the PTR is resolved to "localhost." You obviously did not get the point that I was making. Using ip6.arpa *is* the standard way to get around with "DNS-like" IPv6 addresses, as it wo

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: mkfifo: cannot set permissions of 'x.fifo': Not a directory

2023-08-23 Thread Jeffrey Altman via Cygwin
implementation. The likely recommendation would be to re-export the NFS file shares via Samba and access them via CIFS. Jeffrey Altman smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/fa

Re: Native symbolic link behavior is broken and makes backups using Cygwin command line tools impossible

2021-01-04 Thread Jeffrey Altman via Cygwin
k to create if the target does not exist. I hope this knowledge helps. Jeffrey Altman smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/do

Re: Compiling C-Kermit 9.0.305 Alpha.02 on Cygwin

2020-11-30 Thread Jeffrey Altman via Cygwin
> Thanks. I suspect building C-Kermit with SSH, OpenSSL, Kerberos v5 support is going to be problematic since none of that code has been updated in more than a decade to keep up with the latest upstream packages. I suggest you start by trying to build for a generic linux target without any secur

Re: My delayed complaint about spam on this list

2018-06-04 Thread Jeffrey Altman
I'm a member of a few mailing lists that accept e-mails from non-list members but only after the non-list member successfully accesses a URL that is mailed to the sender's address. Would something like that be possible for the cygwin lists? Jeffrey Altman smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Windows 10 Creators Update and Symlinks

2017-04-12 Thread Jeffrey Altman
When Developer mode is enabled the elevation requirement for symlink creation is disabled: https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10/#DXz6icKZOkEozgYR.97 This was necessary for symlink creation within WSL to work. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signatu

Re: Problem with chdir and GetCurrentDirectory on Windows 2016

2016-12-07 Thread Jeffrey Altman
ed with a device or if it associated with a NTFS device the driver doesn't know how to match /cygdrive with a valid path. Jeffrey Altman smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: FUSE, symbolic links and special files

2016-08-25 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 8/25/2016 11:21 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 25 10:46, Jeffrey Altman wrote: >> On 8/25/2016 9:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Aug 25 09:04, Jeffrey Altman wrote: >>>> On 8/25/2016 8:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>>> Since when is

Re: FUSE, symbolic links and special files

2016-08-25 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 8/25/2016 9:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 25 09:04, Jeffrey Altman wrote: >> On 8/25/2016 8:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> Since when is this RP method available? Unfortunately the above MSDN >>> page doesn't tell... Was it already available wi

Re: FUSE, symbolic links and special files

2016-08-25 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 8/25/2016 8:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Since when is this RP method available? Unfortunately the above MSDN > page doesn't tell... Was it already available with Vista? Does anybody > know? #define IO_REPARSE_TAG_NFS was added in the Windows 8.0 DDK. Jeffrey Altman

Re: FUSE for Cygwin

2016-06-22 Thread Jeffrey Altman
s cannot > work here. I believe that as of Windows 10 Anniversary Edition and Server 2016 Secure Boot becomes mandatory for new installations and with Secure Boot comes the requirement that all device drivers (including file system drivers) be signed by Microsoft. Jeffrey Altman sm

Re: FUSE for Cygwin - was: Re: Fork and Windows Heap

2016-06-18 Thread Jeffrey Altman
d linked into more than one directory. Only the directory that was used to create a file handle is restricted from renaming. Jeffrey Altman smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: BSOD when running from network share

2015-11-19 Thread Jeffrey Altman
ver that is crashing will be able to fix it. Jeffrey Altman smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Error accessing mapped drive >2TB?

2015-10-23 Thread Jeffrey Altman
points at all nor is there any requirement that they expose volume information. While Apple's design choices do not fit with the expectations of Cygwin they are not necessarily wrong. I hope this e-mail is helpful. Jeffrey Altman smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: diff -r won't recurse

2015-04-04 Thread Jeffrey Altman
by many tools to track the volumes that are crossed by reparse points to ensure that a loop does not occur. I suspect that in this case the tool is concluding that the reparse point is referring back to the same volume. Jeffrey Altman smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: cygwin texinfo 5.2.2 missing makeinfo.exe

2015-03-28 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 3/28/2015 9:12 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Jeffrey Altman writes: >> After installing the texinfo 5.2.2 and texinfo-tex 5.2.3 packages I am >> unable to find an installed makeinfo command in /usr/bin/. I do however >> find the makeinfo.1.gz man page contents. > > ma

cygwin texinfo 5.2.2 missing makeinfo.exe

2015-03-28 Thread Jeffrey Altman
work that is put into maintaining Cygwin and packages for it. Jeffrey Altman smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: /usr/local, /var and */tmp in c:\Users\Public

2014-11-15 Thread Jeffrey Altman
for all users (requires administrator) * install for the current user Where install for current user installs the application configured so that the current user account (and not others) can use it. Just my two cents. Jeffrey Altman smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory

2014-11-11 Thread Jeffrey Altman
ate an alternative location? Or perhaps a per-user environment variable which would also be distributed via the user's registry hive. Jeffrey Altman smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory

2014-11-10 Thread Jeffrey Altman
n %HOMEPATH%. And, the data is within the user profile so that when accessed via redirection or otherwise, the data is accessible on every machine the user logs into. Jeffrey Altman smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: The eternal uid issue

2014-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Altman
r members of this group might have some additional suggestions on how to remove checks but if you really want secure delivery of e-mail on a Windows file system you will need to write code that is capable of understanding the capabilities of the file system. Just as you would on UNIX if the home directory w

Re: Coverity Scan

2014-05-16 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 5/16/2014 4:00 PM, David Stacey wrote: > OK - we're in! You can find our project page at > https://scan.coverity.com/projects/2250. Off the list, I've sent e-mails > to Corinna and CGF inviting them to join the project ;-) gold star? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Unable to delegate credentials from Cygwin ssh client was Re: Heimdal 1.5.2: "unknown mech-code 2529639054 for mech 1 3 6 1 4 1 311 2 2 10"

2013-06-25 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 6/25/2013 1:23 AM, Nogin, Aleksey wrote: > Jeffrey Altman wrote: > >>> I am running Heimdal's kinit (as came with MobaXterm 6.2) under >>> Windows 7 to get a ticket from a Windows AD, and then ssh'ing into RHEL >>> 5 and 6 boxes set up to u

Re: Packaging Heimdal for Cygwin was Re: Heimdal 1.5.2: "unknown mech-code 2529639054 for mech 1 3 6 1 4 1 311 2 2 10"

2013-06-24 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 6/24/2013 5:10 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 21 13:35, Jeffrey Altman wrote: >> Since Cygwin Heimdal is built as Linux without any platform specific >> credential cache support it will be restricted to using FILE: caches as >> a ticket store. Microsoft Kerberos n

Packaging Heimdal for Cygwin was Re: Heimdal 1.5.2: "unknown mech-code 2529639054 for mech 1 3 6 1 4 1 311 2 2 10"

2013-06-21 Thread Jeffrey Altman
our patch files which fix minor > build problems and a signal handling bug. Of the four patches included in the tar ball all but the lib/roken/signal.c patch are specific to the Cygwin build and installation. The lib/roken/signal.c patch could be submitted upstream via a github.com pull request a

Unable to delegate credentials from Cygwin ssh client was Re: Heimdal 1.5.2: "unknown mech-code 2529639054 for mech 1 3 6 1 4 1 311 2 2 10"

2013-06-21 Thread Jeffrey Altman
nting ticket (TGT) is not forwardable, then none of the derived tickets will be. When delegating credentials it is the TGT that is forwarded to the remote host, not the host/@ service ticket which is used solely for authentication. Jeffrey Altman -- 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

Re: Heimdal 1.5.2: "unknown mech-code 2529639054 for mech 1 3 6 1 4 1 311 2 2 10"

2013-06-21 Thread Jeffrey Altman
contacted by the Cygwin Heimdal package maintainer. One of my companies, Secure Endpoints, maintains the native Windows distribution of Heimdal. http://www.secure-endpoints.com/heimdal/ Please ask the Heimdal package maintainer for Cygwin to contact me so I can understand how it is being built.

Re: Heimdal 1.5.2: "unknown mech-code 2529639054 for mech 1 3 6 1 4 1 311 2 2 10"

2013-06-20 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 6/20/2013 6:31 PM, Nogin, Aleksey wrote: > Jeffrey Altman wrote: > >>> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent >>> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received >>> debug1: Authentications that can continue: >>> publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password >>&

Re: Heimdal 1.5.2: "unknown mech-code 2529639054 for mech 1 3 6 1 4 1 311 2 2 10"

2013-06-20 Thread Jeffrey Altman
XX ([IP.IP.IP.IP]:22). I'm not sure what the issue is here. The authentication succeeded. MechType 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.2.2.10 is Microsoft's NTLM SSP. The sshd does not support NTLM and so rejects it. The next GSS mechanism is negotiated within the gssapi-with-mic exchange. That is proba

Re: Using native symlinks

2013-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Altman
reateSymbolicLinkPrivilege by default so UAC removes it. What UAC should do in my opinion is not remove a static list of permissions but only remove those permissions that are not granted to standard users. If your organization is a user of native symlinks and you have a support agreement with Micros

Re: Patch for shutdown

2013-05-20 Thread Jeffrey Altman
hine in a state which cannot be recovered without physical access. That is the difference as I see it and it is a significant difference. Sincerely Jeffrey Altman -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://c

Re: Patch for shutdown

2013-05-20 Thread Jeffrey Altman
'd' shutdown reason code I believe it is very important that the Cygwin shutdown not alter the meaning of command line parameters such that they are different from the Windows native version. The various options are already too confusing to remember. Typing the right option value i

Re: winln for native symlinks

2013-04-04 Thread Jeffrey Altman
that elevated status is required. The user would then be prompted by UAC whenever the command is used. Jeffrey Altman -- 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

Re: MIT Kfw SDK w/ Cygwin? Trying to build OpenSSH w/ GSS-API on Cygwin...

2002-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Altman
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:32:01PM -0500, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > > Or just try to compile Krb5 with Cygwin. > > Has anyone done this in recent times? I have a feeling it won't work. > But, hey, I could try. Still, Leash32 won't work, so I'll still need to >

Re: MIT Kfw SDK w/ Cygwin? Trying to build OpenSSH w/ GSS-API on Cygwin...

2002-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Or just try to compile Krb5 with Cygwin. > Then again, tracing this with GDB makes me believe Jeff... :/ > > Oh well. I'll have to give Heimdal a try then... > > Nico Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer C-Kermit 8.0 available now!!! The Kermit Project @

Re: MIT Kfw SDK w/ Cygwin? Trying to build OpenSSH w/ GSS-API on Cygwin...

2002-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Altman
lusivity apply in > this case? > > If so, then I'll give up on Kfw now and try Heimdal - unfortunately that > probably means giving up on Leash32. > > QUESTION: Does the MIT krb5 stuff build on Cygwin? Kerbnet appears to > have died some time ago... >

Re: MIT Kfw SDK w/ Cygwin? Trying to build OpenSSH w/ GSS-API on Cygwin...

2002-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Altman
n my > > K95 test builds. > > Did you build Kfw with Cygwin? I do not use Cygwin. I compile with MSVC. Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer C-Kermit 8.0 available now!!! The Kermit Project @ Columbia University includes Telnet, FTP and HTTP http://www.kermit-project.or

Re: MIT Kfw SDK w/ Cygwin? Trying to build OpenSSH w/ GSS-API on Cygwin...

2002-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Cygwin? Kerbnet appears to > have died some time ago... SSH support including GSSAPI and linkage to MIT Kerberos is now in my K95 test builds. Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer C-Kermit 8.0 available now!!! The Kermit Project @ Columbia University includes Telnet, FTP