Re: sshd problem on WS2008R2 64bit

2019-03-06 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 03:44:36PM -0800, Stephen Paul Carrier wrote: > PW=`dd if=/dev/random bs=15 count=1 | base 64` That should be 'base64' of course, without the space. --S -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: sshd problem on WS2008R2 64bit

2019-03-06 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 02:24:59PM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: ... > For my part, I'm writing a PowerShell script that does the following: > > 1) Create a local user account > 2) Grant it SeBatchLogonRight > 3) Create a scheduled task for it Powershell is probably more elegant if you're familia

Re: sshd permits logon using disabled user?

2019-01-25 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 08:34:09AM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 3:36 AM Stefan Baur wrote: > > > Not on Linux (and possibly other Unices). There, it's perfectly valid > > to disable an account's password login (both locally and remote), but to > > at the same time allow s

Re: msmtp depends on Gnome!?

2018-04-05 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 02:50:36AM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Stephen Paul Carrier! > > > My use case is a sendmail replacement (MTA) to use with cron. > > ssmtp > > > ssmtp does this poorly (and hasn't been maintained since 2009). > > Pleas

Re: msmtp depends on Gnome!?

2018-03-29 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 03:24:50PM -0400, Will Parsons wrote: > On Wednesday, 28 Mar 2018 9:40 PM -0400, Brian Inglis wrote: > > On 2018-03-28 15:50, Stephen Paul Carrier wrote: > >> msmtp is billed as a light-weight SMTP client and I would like to use > >> it

msmtp depends on Gnome!?

2018-03-28 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
Dear cygwin people, msmtp is billed as a light-weight SMTP client and I would like to use it with cron instead of ssmtp. What's not light-weight is its dependency on libgnome-keyring0 which has more dependencies that eventually bring in Gnome. This is for a headless workstation. Is it possible

new setup.exe doesn't collapse package sets in full view.

2016-12-13 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
I downloaded the new setup program (2.877, 32-bit) and ran it on a cygwin installation that hadn't been updated in over a year (2008R2). I first got the Pending view, OK, then switched to Full and found that the packages were not aggregated into tabs-- they were in one very long alphabetical list.

Re: Installer names not meaningful enough

2016-12-05 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 11:37:41AM -0500, Ian Lambert wrote: > On December 1, 2016 8:54:57 AM EST, cyg Simple wrote: > > > > > >On 12/1/2016 8:25 AM, Vlado wrote: > >> On 1.12.2016 13:51, Eliot Moss wrote: > >>> I think that including the version of the setup program could be > >helpful > >>> - I

Re: python 2.7.12 pip install with extensions fails with warning: "__BSD_VISIBLE" redefined

2016-11-28 Thread Stephen Paul Carrier
>> Hi - >> >> The newest version of cygwin with python 2.7.12-1 fails when pip >> installing packages that require compilation. For example, pycrypto >> fails: > >FWIW this patch to pycrypto also fixes it: > >https://git.sagemath.org/sage.git/tree/build/pkgs/pycrypto/patches/cygwin/disable-std-c99