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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] EOL for Windows 95/86/Me
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:11:55 -0600
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb 14 10:22, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> Exciting new stuff so far (IMHO):
>>> [snip]
>>> - New setuid method which allows to logon without password and being
>>>  recognized correctly also by native Windows applications
>> Does this mean ssh might *finally* work right with password-less login? :-)
> 
> [snip] And in the long run you will have to reboot
> your machine each time you install a new Cygwin release when using this
> feature.

That's a fairly major bummer. Is that because this is something that 
depends on cygwin.dll and can't be unloaded, or...?

-- 
Matthew
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