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Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:09:39 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
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Subject: Re: Change to passwd in cygwin-1.7.10-1 breaks ssh-host-config
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On 2/8/2012 3:30 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Feb  8 13:12, Tom Schutter wrote:
>> It appears that the "-v" option to passwd was changed to "-V" in
>> cygwin-1.7.10.1.  This indirectly breaks the ssh-host-config script.
>> The actual breakage is in the csih script.
>> [...]
>> $ grep "passwd -v" /usr/share/csih/cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh
>>          passwd_has_expiry_flags=$(passwd -v | /usr/bin/awk '/^passwd
>> /{print ( $3>=
>> 1.5 ) ? "yes" : "no";}')
>
> Chuck, can we please remove this test in csih amd release a new version
> ASAP?  The expiry stuff is from 2003 so we can safely assume its
> existence.

Especially as csih-0.9.x requires cygwin-1.7.

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.




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