Re: Running 64bit processes from 32bit Cygwin

2008-09-02 Thread Robert McKay
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 32bit processes can launch 64 bit processes, and vice versa. > You are not trapped in emulation. > Simply via the normal CreateProcess, or system(), or ShellExecute(). > There's no need to ask Explorer to do it for you. Except...

Running 64bit processes from 32bit Cygwin

2008-09-01 Thread Robert McKay
Hi all, I have a problem with running powershell scripts from within cygwin.. basically no matter what I do it always ends up running the powershell process as 32bit when invoked from within Cygwin. This normally wouldn't make a difference, but I need to use a powershell extension that only exists

Re: How do I run sshd as a particular user?

2008-04-12 Thread Robert McKay
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 12 01:11, Robert McKay wrote: > > In order to run sshd as an unprivileged user I had to use a nasty > > hexedit hack on the sshd.exe file to replace the seteuid() call (which > >

Re: How do I run sshd as a particular user?

2008-04-11 Thread Robert McKay
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Alfred von Campe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 11, 2008, at 11:48, I wrote: > > > > Well, I spoke a little too soon. I got this working on two systems, but > can not get it to work on a third. The ssh daemon appears to start (neither > cygrunsrv -S nor start

Re: ssh asks for key passphrase every time

2006-12-20 Thread Robert McKay
On 12/20/06, burning shadow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have created identification key with passphrase (id_dsa). Now every time I try to open ssh connection to any host, ssh asks for passphrase for this key. I believed, ssh should ask for a passphrase only if host wants to accept key. FreeBSD's

Re: sh files

2006-10-30 Thread Robert McKay
On 10/30/06, dubcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Eric. Unfortunately, your remedy did not work. As I mentioned in my original mail, all my .sh files were made under unix. But I tried d2u anyway (you never know), but I got the same result. Here is an example of one of my unsophisticated .sh

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

2006-10-26 Thread Robert McKay
On 10/26/06, Teggy P Veerapen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Thanks guys for all these informations ... In fact, I have tried both solutions connect and corkscrew but I haven't been able to connect through the proxy with neither utility. I am getting a forbidden message and if I turn debug optio

bash: /dev/null: No such file or directory. Why is /dev/null implemented using the windows NUL device?

2006-06-01 Thread Robert McKay
ld write my own /dev/null device that just implemented a couple of do-nothing read/write syscalls without using the windows NUL service that would be even better. Any suggestions appreciated, Sincerely, Robert McKay. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Probl

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2006-06-01 Thread Robert McKay
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