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Re: Change to passwd in cygwin-1.7.10-1 breaks ssh-host-config
On Feb 22 16:33, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 2/22/2012 12:48 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> >> On Feb 9 01:09, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >>> I've uploaded a csih-0.9.5-1 as a 'test' release. Changes:
> >>>
> >>> * native/Makefile: Avoid -mno-cygwin and gcc3; use mingw cross compiler.
> >>> * native/winProductName.c (GetOSDisplayString): Support
> >>> Windows 8 and Windows Server 8. Improve support for various
> >>> Microsoft OS products.
> >>> * New functions csih_is_windows8(), csih_is_exactly_windows8(),
> >>> and csih_is_exactly_windows8server().
> >>> * In csih_account_has_necessary_privileges(), no longer attempt to
> >>> validate membership in Administrators group -- the test doesn't
> >>> work properly on domains anyway. Just try to set the necessary
> >>> rights and report error if the operation fails. Reported by
> >>> Corinna Vinschen.
> >>> * In csih_create_privileged_user(), don't attempt to check whether
> >>> /usr/bin/passwd has the -e option; all versions of passwd shipped
> >>> with cygwin-1.7.x support it. Reported by Tom Schutter.
> >>> * Fixed bug related to the various existing csih_is_exactly_*
> >>> functions.
>
> > What's the status of this?
>
> Still in test mode. I haven't heard back from the OP whether this change
> to csih fixed his error (and didn't break anything else).
The changes in csih_account_has_necessary_privileges appear to do what
they should. Just put it out of testing and see what happens.
Corinna
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