Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:47:26PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On 4/10/2014 20:16, Duncan Roe wrote: > >Yes, I'm one of those users. I need my login name to match the Linux systems > >so > >I can use rsh and not be challenged for a password when the cygwin host name > >is > >in ~/.rhosts > > If

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Warren Young
On 4/10/2014 20:16, Duncan Roe wrote: Yes, I'm one of those users. I need my login name to match the Linux systems so I can use rsh and not be challenged for a password when the cygwin host name is in ~/.rhosts If you switch to SSH, you can solve this by putting this into your ~/.ssh/config fi

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 07:11:02PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: >> I admit that Christopher can be gruff at times. And I think that sometimes >> he has a bit of an attitude. But, honestly I don't blame him for that. Look >> at it from his per

Re: 1.7.29-2: Exception from cygwin_gethostname

2014-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 04:30:36PM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: >PEBCAK. Totally my fault. Nothing to do with Cygwin. > >Cygwin snapshot is doing fine for me. Sorry for all the noise. Been there many times. Thanks for your unflagging persistence in dealing with these issues. cgf -- Problem

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 07:39:49PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: So, like Andy, pardon me if I'm not moved to tears by your difficulties submitting patches. >> So, again, pardon me if I'm not moved to tears by your difficulties. > >Oo

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 01:15:12AM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote: >On 2014-04-09 19:05, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> And, this gives me the opportunity to say a belated thank-you to you and >> other people who have managed, despite all odds, to contribute. >> >> Here's a knocked together list from the

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Duncan Roe
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:11:20PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 10 12:42, Warren Young wrote: > > On 4/10/2014 08:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >* Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username. > > > > > > This is a really fat problem. > > > > Who needs this funct

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-10 Thread Steven Penny
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: >>> So, like Andy, pardon me if I'm not moved to tears by your difficulties >>> submitting patches. > So, again, pardon me if I'm not moved to tears by your difficulties. Oops, sorry folks it looks like I trigged a broken record. Sir, I have

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-10 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Steven Penny wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: If you do what you have always done, you will get what you always got. If Christopher wants to gripe on the mailing that his business, but he and everyone else need to get realisic about the fact that not everyone is

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-10 Thread Steven Penny
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Chris J. Breisch wrote: > I admit that Christopher can be gruff at times. And I think that sometimes > he has a bit of an attitude. But, honestly I don't blame him for that. Look > at it from his perspective. Christopher Faylor is an invaluable part of this projec

Re: 1.7.29-2: Exception from cygwin_gethostname

2014-04-10 Thread David Rothenberger
David Rothenberger wrote: > David Rothenberger wrote: >> David Rothenberger wrote: >>> David Rothenberger wrote: David Rothenberger wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC], >> >> On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote: >>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-10 Thread Peter Rosin
On 2014-04-09 19:05, Christopher Faylor wrote: > And, this gives me the opportunity to say a belated thank-you to you and > other people who have managed, despite all odds, to contribute. > > Here's a knocked together list from the last 13-or-so years of Cygwin. *snip* > Apologies if I missed an

Re: Possible bug with chere 1.4 when configuring for fish

2014-04-10 Thread Dave Kilroy
On 10/04/2014 11:06, Ronald Fischer wrote: I've had more time to look around. If you add the following to the file ~/.config/fish/config.fish (create it if you haven't already got one), then things should work as intended: if status --is-login set PATH /usr/local/bin /usr/bin $PATH end

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Warren Young
On 4/10/2014 14:20, Eric Blake wrote: is BOUND to go wrong. The expression ~a/b/file is NOT requesting 'file' within user 'a/b's home, but 'b/file' within user 'a's home. Excellent point. Doesn't that also argue against backslash, due to the DLL's attempts to automatically cope with DOS pa

Re: 1.7.29-2: Exception from cygwin_gethostname

2014-04-10 Thread David Rothenberger
David Rothenberger wrote: > David Rothenberger wrote: >> David Rothenberger wrote: >>> David Rothenberger wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC], > > On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote: >> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/10/2014 01:04 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > A local cygwin user told me that the users in their company would > probably be confused by the '+ or, FWIW, any other non-backslash char, > because they were drilled to see and use usernames always in domain\name > form, or even in domain\\user

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/10/2014 01:46 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: >> * cygserver now provides system-wide passwd/group entry caching. >> >> All processes started *after* cygserver will try to fetch passwd >> and group entries from cygserver. While this is probably a bit >> slow at the st

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/10/2014 3:04 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I like slashes a lot more for obvious reasons. But maybe, and that wouldn't be too hard to implement, we could accept account names with slash and with backslash, just as we do with pathnames. Output of usernames would be with slashes, of course. W

Re: 1.7.29-2: Exception from cygwin_gethostname

2014-04-10 Thread David Rothenberger
David Rothenberger wrote: > David Rothenberger wrote: >> David Rothenberger wrote: >>> Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC], On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote: > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Apr 7 1

Re: 1.7.29-2: Exception from cygwin_gethostname

2014-04-10 Thread David Rothenberger
David Rothenberger wrote: > David Rothenberger wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC], >>> >>> On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Apr 7 11:49, David Rothenberger wrote:

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > * cygserver now provides system-wide passwd/group entry caching. > > All processes started *after* cygserver will try to fetch passwd > and group entries from cygserver. While this is probably a bit > slow at the start, the longer cygserver runs, the more informati

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 21:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 10 12:42, Warren Young wrote: > > On 4/10/2014 08:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >* Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username. > > > > > > This is a really fat problem. > > > > Who needs this functionality? > > I don't r

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 12:42, Warren Young wrote: > On 4/10/2014 08:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >* Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username. > > > > This is a really fat problem. > > Who needs this functionality? I don't remember, but some user on this list wrote in February about

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 12:39, Warren Young wrote: > On 4/10/2014 09:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > >The only reason I dislike backslash a bit is, that the backslash is > >the escape char in the shell, so you would have remember every time > >you type in such an account name to escape the account name, > >DOM

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Warren Young
On 4/10/2014 08:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: * Support for Cygwin user names different from the Windows username. This is a really fat problem. Who needs this functionality? Is it some legacy of passwd(5) compatibility, such as the wish to have colons in Windows login names? Does the mov

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Warren Young
On 4/10/2014 09:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The only reason I dislike backslash a bit is, that the backslash is the escape char in the shell, so you would have remember every time you type in such an account name to escape the account name, DOMAIN\\username or "DOMAIN\username" Is this DOMAIN\

Re: 1.7.29-2: Exception from cygwin_gethostname

2014-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 10:12, David Rothenberger wrote: > David Rothenberger wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC], > >> > >> On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote: > >>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Apr 7 11:49, David

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 13:21, Ken Brown wrote: > On 4/10/2014 10:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Hi folks, > > > > > >The latest snapshot, 2014-04-10, is a snapshot from CVS HEAD again. > >It contains the latest crazy ideas in terms of the user and group > >account creation without requiring the /etc/passwd a

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/10/2014 10:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi folks, The latest snapshot, 2014-04-10, is a snapshot from CVS HEAD again. It contains the latest crazy ideas in terms of the user and group account creation without requiring the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Not a lot has changed since we

Re: 1.7.29-2: Exception from cygwin_gethostname

2014-04-10 Thread David Rothenberger
David Rothenberger wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC], >> >> On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote: >>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 7 11:49, David Rothenberger wrote: >> I'm having a problem doing hostn

RE: symlinks to scripts not found in path

2014-04-10 Thread KARR, DAVID
> -Original Message- > Vinschen > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 9:00 AM > Subject: Re: symlinks to scripts not found in path > > On Apr 10 15:51, KARR, DAVID wrote: > > On my old 32-bit Win7 box running Cygwin 1.7.26, I have an executable > > script that is > intended to be symlinked to

Re: 1.7.29-2: Exception from cygwin_gethostname

2014-04-10 Thread David Rothenberger
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC], > > On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote: >> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 7 11:49, David Rothenberger wrote: > I'm having a problem doing hostname resolution on one of my >

Re: symlinks to scripts not found in path

2014-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 15:51, KARR, DAVID wrote: > On my old 32-bit Win7 box running Cygwin 1.7.26, I have an executable script > that is intended to be symlinked to and executed as the symlink name. This > works fine. > > On my new 64-bit Win7 box running Cygwin 1.7.29, I created the symlink using > "ln -

Re: [PATCH] base-files-4.2-1: Change prompt if running with admin rights

2014-04-10 Thread Christian Franke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 9 23:50, Christian Franke wrote: I used the registry check in the past because it only uses shell builtins and does not rely on specific SID->gid mappings in /etc/group. Especially given that in future there might be no /etc/group to begin with. But even without

symlinks to scripts not found in path

2014-04-10 Thread KARR, DAVID
On my old 32-bit Win7 box running Cygwin 1.7.26, I have an executable script that is intended to be symlinked to and executed as the symlink name. This works fine. On my new 64-bit Win7 box running Cygwin 1.7.29, I created the symlink using "ln -s" as before. When I try to execute the script

Re: Compiling Heimdal

2014-04-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: > Actually I think what you're looking for is "DEPEND" > (/usr/share/doc/cygport/manual.html#robo821). I've stopped using this one since it doesn't tell you which of the potentially many dependencies failed and it just stops the compilation cold. The individual check_* functions

Re: [PATCH] base-files-4.2-1: Change prompt if running with admin rights

2014-04-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > But even without /etc/group, the administrator's group will have the > gid 544. I think such a test should be sufficient? That's what I've been using for quite some time and I guess that's the right thing to check for. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 N

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 11:19, Chris J. Breisch wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >* cygserver now provides system-wide passwd/group entry caching. > > > > All processes started *after* cygserver will try to fetch passwd > > and group entries from cygserver. While this is probably a bit > > slow at the s

Re: Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Corinna Vinschen wrote: * cygserver now provides system-wide passwd/group entry caching. All processes started *after* cygserver will try to fetch passwd and group entries from cygserver. While this is probably a bit slow at the start, the longer cygserver runs, the more information

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-10 Thread Chris J. Breisch
Steven Penny wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Hey buddy, if you want to spend your days with ad hominem attacks that is your business. The point of my emails was not my contributions, but Christopher's complaining. You know, I've read this whole thread. There's only

Re: Compiling Heimdal

2014-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 10:01, Ken Brown wrote: > On 4/10/2014 9:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Apr 10 13:14, Achim Gratz wrote: > >>Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > >>>Skimming the cygport manual, I just can't find the keyword to specify > >>>the build reqs. > >> > >>That would be the "Checks" sect

Still testing needed: New passwd/group AD/SAM integration

2014-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi folks, The latest snapshot, 2014-04-10, is a snapshot from CVS HEAD again. It contains the latest crazy ideas in terms of the user and group account creation without requiring the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. Not a lot has changed since we made a break to test for 1.7.29, but there's one

Re: Compiling Heimdal

2014-04-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/10/2014 9:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 10 13:14, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: Skimming the cygport manual, I just can't find the keyword to specify the build reqs. That would be the "Checks" section, note that you need to check for the presence of spe

Re: Compiling Heimdal

2014-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 13:14, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > Skimming the cygport manual, I just can't find the keyword to specify > > the build reqs. > > That would be the "Checks" section, note that you need to check for the > presence of specific headers, libs, programs or pa

Re: Compiling Heimdal

2014-04-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > Skimming the cygport manual, I just can't find the keyword to specify > the build reqs. That would be the "Checks" section, note that you need to check for the presence of specific headers, libs, programs or package configs (as well as language / interpreter

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-10 Thread Steven Penny
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > If all the point you want to make is that YOU don't want to spend time > supporting the toolset you're using daily, please save your energy. > My Care-o-meter shows negative readings. Hey buddy, if you want to spend your days with ad hominem at

Re: 1.7.29-2: Exception from cygwin_gethostname

2014-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 07:47, Ken Brown wrote: > On 4/10/2014 5:15 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Ken, I would also be greatful if you could give this snapshot a try. > >You came up with so fascinating testcases. I tried running emacs-X11 -Q > >with this new code and it still works(*), so I'm hopeful the worka

Re: Compiling Heimdal

2014-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 11:18, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > I'm wondering, though, couldn't the cygport script contain something > > like this to give warning that the so-and-so devel packages are required > > before building? Does cygport support this already, perhaps, and I j

Re: 1.7.29-2: Exception from cygwin_gethostname

2014-04-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/10/2014 5:15 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC], On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 7 11:49, David Rothenberger wrote: I'm having a problem doing hostname resolution on one of my Wi

Re: Compiling Heimdal

2014-04-10 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > I'm wondering, though, couldn't the cygport script contain something > like this to give warning that the so-and-so devel packages are required > before building? Does cygport support this already, perhaps, and I just > missed it? Yes it can check for prere

Re: Possible bug with chere 1.4 when configuring for fish

2014-04-10 Thread Ronald Fischer
> I've had more time to look around. If you add the following to the file > ~/.config/fish/config.fish (create it if you haven't already got one), > then things should work as intended: > > if status --is-login > set PATH /usr/local/bin /usr/bin $PATH > end > > Alternatively drop it in th

Re: 1.7.29-2: Exception from cygwin_gethostname

2014-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi David, Hi Ken [in CC], On Apr 7 13:50, David Rothenberger wrote: > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > On 4/7/2014 3:09 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Apr 7 11:49, David Rothenberger wrote: > >>> I'm having a problem doing hostname resolution on one of my Windows > >>> 7 64 machines after upd

Re: Possible bug with chere 1.4 when configuring for fish

2014-04-10 Thread Ronald Otto Valentin Fischer
> I've had more time to look around. If you add the following to the file > ~/.config/fish/config.fish (create it if you haven't already got one), > then things should work as intended: > > if status --is-login > set PATH /usr/local/bin /usr/bin $PATH > end > > Alternatively drop it in th

Re: [PATCH] base-files-4.2-1: Change prompt if running with admin rights

2014-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 9 23:50, Christian Franke wrote: > Achim Gratz wrote: > >Christian Franke writes: > >>Attached is an updated version of: > >>https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00806.html > >I'll put this on hold until the AD integration has landed in Cygwin > >(which will require some larger chang

Re: Compiling Heimdal

2014-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 09:42, Csaba Raduly wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > > On 2014-04-09 12:47, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > >>> > >>> On 2014-04-09 10:59, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > > Trying to build heimdal to debug other problem. Installed sources, > insta

Re: We need steenking patches (Re: Cygwin kill utility...)

2014-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 05:58, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Steven Penny! > > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Warren Young wrote: > >> If you think web code repository searching and a public bug tracker are > >> primary barriers to contribution, you aren't being honest with yourself. > >> They are nice,

Re: Compiling Heimdal

2014-04-10 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On 2014-04-09 12:47, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >>> >>> On 2014-04-09 10:59, Henry S. Thompson wrote: Trying to build heimdal to debug other problem. Installed sources, installed missing dependency of gettext-devel, hit a pre

Re: set Cygwin terminal title

2014-04-10 Thread Csaba Raduly
Hi xmoon, Please don't top-post (http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU) On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:25 AM, xmoon 2000 wrote: > @Csaba Yes - that works. > > Actually that's a big help - because within my looping bash script > that is keeping the window title up/changing until scripts stops . > Which i