File permission hassles on Vista

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 fil

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Re: ssh and vista

> > 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. National Bingo Night. Play along f

PStree on cygwin

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 -- Unsubscrib

Re: PStree on cygwin

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

Re: ssh/pubkey authentication and use of subst

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,