Re: Mount / Access is Denied

2014-03-09 Thread PolarStorm
Cicero Silva Luiz Junior wrote > I'm starting setup with the -B parameter, because I simply want it to > install to a directory and not touch any OS settings. I have tried > many other tricks but it always says "Mount / Access is Denied". I > have even tried using x86 only version, but it fails exa

Cygwin subscription list blockage

2014-03-10 Thread PolarStorm
I would appreciate if any Cygwin list responsible person could get back to me on why I am not able to post this article: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/CSIH-SSH-setup-script-problems-on-W81-64-td106953.html Regards, Gene Rederer PS. Cygwin list need to reconsider their spam filter settings

Re: Please stop sending email to corinna-cygwin and lh-cygwin

2014-03-11 Thread PolarStorm
Christopher Faylor-8 wrote > I know that this is a pointless exercise but I'll say it anyway: people > who think that they can have a private chat with Corinna or Larry by > sending email to what seem to be their private email addresses will just > show up in the spam trap, possibly even causing sp

Re: Bug in /dev/dsp = problems at short wav-files (<2sec)

2014-03-12 Thread PolarStorm
Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote > Here was my reply to your original thread: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-03/msg00217.html That seem to link back to OP in THIS same thread. (at least it does so for me.) -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Bug-in-dev-dsp-problems

Re: sox - package is broken

2014-03-18 Thread PolarStorm
David Stacey wrote > I was testing with > cat ding.wav > /dev/dsp > This gives a segmentation fault with the latest (2014-03-18) snapshot; > no sound is heard However, if I repeat your test: > cp ding.wav /dev/dsp > Then that works and the ding dings. Which confuses me greatly - I've >

Re: Silently configure sshd fails via system account

2014-03-18 Thread PolarStorm
Paul Griffith wrote > ... > /usr/bin/ssh-host-config --yes --cygwin ntsec --user cyg_server --pwd blah > ... Just a few things... 1) Don't do that (manually). First of all, "ntsec" is deprecated. Second, there are a lot of strange issues when using "--yes", just answer the questions manually, e

Re: Silently configure sshd fails via system account

2014-03-19 Thread PolarStorm
Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote > I attached a new incarnation of the ssh-host-config script to this > mail. > ... > - The "UsePrivilegeSeparation" setting in /etc/sshd_config now takes into > account that the default setting is "sandbox", which doesn't make > sense on Cygwin. > ... > I also tweaked t

Are there any SELinux tools available for Cygwin?

2014-05-30 Thread PolarStorm
Hi, I'm looking into remotely managing a few machines that are running various SELinux flavours. But the management of SELinux and the audit.log files often requires tools such as: audit2allow audit2why semanage etc. Some of this code can be found here: http://userspace.selinuxproject.org/trac/b

Re: Are there any SELinux tools available for Cygwin?

2014-05-31 Thread PolarStorm
Warren Young wrote > There is an excellent tool for managing SELinux on remote machines, and > it is packaged for Cygwin. It is called ssh. Perhaps you have a package to prevent idiots from answering here as well? Install it please. -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.n

Re: Update CoreUtils

2014-05-31 Thread PolarStorm
Christopher Faylor-8 wrote > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 06:26:01PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >>On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> I've taken the ball back. We don't need a new maintainer. >> >>You clearly do, as I have shown. You are just choosing not to take one >>on.

Re: Are there any SELinux tools available for Cygwin?

2014-05-31 Thread PolarStorm
Robert Pendell-5 wrote > I personally don't see a point in building userland SELinux tools for > Cygwin. As Warren pointed out already it may be simpler to just ssh > into the box in question and generate it from there. I took a look > and building the tools may be quite a task. It looks like at

Re: Problem logging into ssh

2014-05-31 Thread PolarStorm
Noah White wrote > I’ve installed and configured sshd to run as a service under a particular > account which is an Administrator. I can ssh in fine as that user. > However, if I try to ssh as any other user I get the following error: > > Last login: Wed May 21 18:58:35 2014 from foo.home > /bin/ba

Re: Are there any SELinux tools available for Cygwin?

2014-06-03 Thread PolarStorm
Warren Young wrote > On 5/31/2014 12:33, PolarStorm wrote: >> I'd like to >> refrain from having to run long remote sessions on each machine while >> experimentally editing all the various policy files. Downloading all >> files >> in >> one go and

Re: Package file lists archive

2014-06-12 Thread PolarStorm
Steven Penny wrote > Adding to this, here is the sometimes frustrating experience of "cygcheck > -p" > ... > And here is current iteration of my tool > ... Thank you very much for that apt-cyg patch! I don't use cygcheck very often, but when I do it's been mostly a waste of time. Ever since I s

SSHd configuration problems (System error 1376)

2014-12-12 Thread PolarStorm
So it's that time of the year again, when one need to install SSHd on some machine... and as usual (?) that's when the Cygwin ssh-host-config script fails. I say as usual, because last time I posted to these forums it was the same problem. So I must really question whether or not the Cygwin devel