Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3BE189C5.57F5219@rowman.com> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 12:43:33 -0500 From: John Peacock MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" CC: "Colliver, Robert" , "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: key permission problem $CYGWIN=ntea, OPENSSH References: <4.3.1.2.20011101121537.016cebb8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > > >Is your disk NTFS? If not, you are not able to take advantage of several > >features like ntea and ntsec (the latter is what you should be using anyways). > > This is not quite right. I'll direct you both to > > http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-filemodes.html > > which explains the use of ntea. If Robert's partition is NTFS though, > John's quite right to recommend the use of the ntsec option instead. > And if Robert's using Win9x, then it doesn't matter what option he sets. I stand [mostly] corrected. I suspect it is likely that ssh is NOT complaining when there is no 'ntea' set mostly because someone patched it to disable the option 'StrictModes' when 'ntea' is not present. As the joke goes "then don't do that..." John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/