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Hi Chuck,

On Jan 28 11:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 27 19:35, Siegmar Gross wrote:
> > *** Info: Note that the CYGWIN variable must contain at least "ntsec"
> > *** Info: for sshd to be able to change user context without password.
> > *** Query: Enter the value of CYGWIN for the daemon: [ntsec] ntsec tty server
> > *** ERROR: Only [no] "check_case:strict" "ntsec" "smbntsec" "traverse" allowed.
> > [...]
> > Why doesn't the script allow the values "ntsec tty server" for CYGWIN
> > any longer although "cygserver" needs "server" in CYGWIN?
> 
> Chris is right about "tty", you don't need it.  However, disallowing
> "tty" and "server" is a bug in the script.  The text about ntsec should
> be changed as well, it's not correct anymore for a long time.  I'll fix
> that.

What was the exact reason to restrict the input for the CYGWIN settings
in csih?  I don't quite understand why a lot of options are disallowed
at all, for instance "winsymlinks", "ntea", etc.

IMHO this doesn't make much sense, especially given that Cygwin 1.7
has a quite different set of CYGWIN settings.

What I'm planning to do is this:

- In cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh I would like to drop the
  check for the content of CYGWIN entirely.

- In ssh-host-config I'd like to set the default for the CYGWIN settings
  to an empty string.

What do you think?


Corinna

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