X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:03:46 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] EOL for Windows 95/86/Me Message-ID: <20070214170346.GW4158@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <45D27BD7.4040304@users.sourceforge.net> <20070214093556.GA16654@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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? :-) You have to install an authentication DLL and change a registry key, but otherwise, yes. There's a installer script called /bin/cyglsa-config which does that for you. And in the long run you will have to reboot your machine each time you install a new Cygwin release when using this feature. Nothing's without a price ;) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/