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Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Re: Updated: OpenSSH-3.4p1-1
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:51:41 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Metcalf [mailto:metcalf AT incert DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 1:28 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Re: Updated: OpenSSH-3.4p1-1
> 
> 
> On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > The Cygwin version modifies that test so that if /var/empty resides
> > on a FAT or FAT32 filesystem, or if ntsec is not activated, the
> > ownership isn't tested at all.  If /var/empty is on a NTFS 
> filesystem
> > and ntsec is switched on, the ownership is checked against the user
> > running sshd.
> 
> Thanks.  This was indeed the problem (I'm running ntfs, ntsec).
> 
> I saw your note about one small change and it didn't occur to 
> that it was
> exactly the one thing that I went into the "official" sources 
> in search of!
> 
> Some words to this effect should go into 
> /usr/doc/openssh/README.privsep
> as well, since it still talks about a "chown root:sys 
> /var/empty" being
> required.
> 

Perhaps this information should go into
/usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-3.4p1-1.README instead?

My understanding of the documentation setup is
that Cygwin-specific information goes into
/usr/doc/Cygwin, while the "official" 
(non-Cygwin-specific) documents go into
/usr/doc/<package-name>.

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