Re: sshd/SYSTEM account/OS version and Cygwin "bitness" limitations

2019-03-28 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-03-28 15:36, Bill Stewart wrote: > I am trying to understand the limitations when running sshd using the > SYSTEM account. > Is the following complete and correct? > == > OS_version* OS_bitness sshd_bitness Notes > -- > < 6.3

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Steven Penny
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 22:33:48, Thomas Wolff wrote: It's a bit strange that you're telling my that *you* don't care about *my* information. I'm trying to raise some awareness about privacy on this occasion (which is quite a topic nowadays) and if you don't care, you don't need to comment. Yeah,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 28.03.2019 um 20:47 schrieb Achim Gratz: Thomas Wolff writes: I do not like the dual chaos of manual vs info pages, and I'm maybe a bit old-fashioned to insist that manual pages should be complete, but isn't that their purpose? You are barking up the wrong tree, but if you're that bothered b

sshd/SYSTEM account/OS version and Cygwin "bitness" limitations

2019-03-28 Thread Bill Stewart
I am trying to understand the limitations when running sshd using the SYSTEM account. Is the following complete and correct? == OS_version* OS_bitness sshd_bitness Notes -- < 6.364-bit 32-bitNote 1 < 6.364-bi

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 28.03.2019 um 19:38 schrieb Vince Rice: On Mar 28, 2019, at 1:33 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 28.03.2019 um 19:16 schrieb Vince Rice: On Mar 28, 2019, at 1:09 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: A potential solution is, add another user to your system named cygwin. When you build you packages use the cy

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > I do not like the dual chaos of manual vs info pages, and I'm maybe a > bit old-fashioned to insist that manual pages should be complete, but > isn't that their purpose? You are barking up the wrong tree, but if you're that bothered by it, you can file an RFE or bug report w

Re: Report

2019-03-28 Thread Marco Atzeri
adding the original sender as unlikely he is subscribed to this mailing list Am 28.03.2019 um 19:43 schrieb Björn Stabel: Had you pasted the message like a normal human being, you would have a reply by now since there's a bot for that. And an faq entry: https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fix

Re: Report

2019-03-28 Thread Björn Stabel
Had you pasted the message like a normal human being, you would have a reply by now since there's a bot for that. And an faq entry: https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-find_fast_cwd-warnings And you could just throw the whole thing into google and it'll probably lead you to the faq entry

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Vince Rice
> On Mar 28, 2019, at 1:33 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > Am 28.03.2019 um 19:16 schrieb Vince Rice: >>> On Mar 28, 2019, at 1:09 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>> A potential solution is, add another user to your system named cygwin. When you build you packages use the cygwin user. The debug in

Report

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 28.03.2019 um 19:16 schrieb Vince Rice: On Mar 28, 2019, at 1:09 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: A potential solution is, add another user to your system named cygwin. When you build you packages use the cygwin user. The debug information will reference your cygwin user, and not your real user accou

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 28.03.2019 um 19:21 schrieb Achim Gratz: Thomas Wolff writes: In fact that seems to work, although there is no TAR_OPTIONS documented in the manual page. The already much too long manual page does tell you to consult the info manual right at the top, does it not? I do not like the dual chaos

Dependancy Hell (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9)

2019-03-28 Thread Chris Wagner
On 2019-03-28 7:36 am, Steven Penny wrote: On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:34:34, Thomas Wolff wrote: Mintty can be used to run any command-line application directly (like top, your editor, ...), a shell is not needed. That may be true, the by default Mintty is configure to load Bash. So it is disinge

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > In fact that seems to work, although there is no TAR_OPTIONS > documented in the manual page. The already much too long manual page does tell you to consult the info manual right at the top, does it not? Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andro

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Vince Rice
> On Mar 28, 2019, at 1:09 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >> A potential solution is, add another user to your system named cygwin. >> When you build you packages use the cygwin user. The debug information >> will reference your cygwin user, and not your real user account. > Thanks for the suggestion,

Re: SSL not required for setup.exe download

2019-03-28 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 8:25 AM Brian Inglis wrote: > ... corporate policies, proxies, firewalls, security products. > Systems or images older than a year may need the new root CA installed - some > enterprises are very selective about including support for anything in their > images - and users ma

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 28.03.2019 um 15:02 schrieb Jeffrey Walton: On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 4:44 AM Thomas Wolff wrote: ... Björn Stabel wrote: On 27/03/2019 23:59, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 21:02 +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: I used to use tar rather than cygport package to generate the package

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 28.03.2019 um 18:40 schrieb Achim Gratz: Björn Stabel writes: Sorry for commenting from the peanut gallery, but his problem may be that he doesn't want to disclose his user name to anyone nosy enough to snoop around in the package files. Not tested, but something like env TAR_OPTIONS="--use

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Björn Stabel writes: > Sorry for commenting from the peanut gallery, but his problem may be > that he doesn't want to disclose his user name to anyone nosy enough to > snoop around in the package files. Not tested, but something like env TAR_OPTIONS="--user=0 --group=0" cygport ... should do it.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Thomas Wolff writes: > Mintty can be used to run any command-line application directly (like > top, your editor, ...), a shell is not needed. Your _package_ has a dependency to the shell by way of including a shell script. If you so desperately want to get rid of it (even though it's always insta

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2019-03-28 05:36, Steven Penny wrote: > On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:34:34, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Mintty can be used to run any command-line application directly (like top, >> your editor, ...), a shell is not needed. > > That may be true, the by default Mintty is configure to load Bash. So it is >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 4:44 AM Thomas Wolff wrote: > ... > Björn Stabel wrote: > > On 27/03/2019 23:59, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > >> On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 21:02 +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: > >>> I used to use tar rather than cygport package to generate the packages. > >>> One reason was that I did

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Steven Penny
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:34:34, Thomas Wolff wrote: Mintty can be used to run any command-line application directly (like top, your editor, ...), a shell is not needed. That may be true, the by default Mintty is configure to load Bash. So it is disingenuous so simply say that it does not require

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 28 09:43, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Achim Gratz wrote: > > > > > Trying cygport package, a bunch of problems arise: > > > > > > I removed -s as suggested by Achim, added -g as advised by Corinna, > > > but cygport still says: > > > *** Info: No debug files, skipping debuginfo subpackage > > We

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
Achim Gratz wrote: Trying cygport package, a bunch of problems arise: I removed -s as suggested by Achim, added -g as advised by Corinna, but cygport still says: *** Info: No debug files, skipping debuginfo subpackage Well, do not reset CFLAGS in your Makefile and cygport helpfully provides a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 28.03.2019 um 04:42 schrieb Steven Penny: On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 20:44:44, Brian Inglis wrote: Both dash and bash are in Base, installed by default, and both are login shells, while dash requires only cygwin1.dll to run, and can be used during setup, before other libraries or utilities are ins

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.9

2019-03-28 Thread Björn Stabel
On 27/03/2019 23:59, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 21:02 +0100, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> I used to use tar rather than cygport package to generate the packages. >> One reason was that I didn’t want my local user/group to appear in them. > They won't show up like that once installed.