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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:52:06 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Definitely no sshd on FAT32?
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On Mar 23 17:44, Ian Brandt wrote:
> 
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >The following checks are performed on the key file in the following order:
> >
> >- Not Windows NT? Yes -> Don't check permissions.
> 
> I'm running Windows 2000, so this shouldn't catch.
> 
> >- "ntea" switched on? Yes -> Check permissions.  (Not applicable on FAT32)
> 
> I don't have it set, and according to the docs it's off by default, and 
> I'm on FAT32 anyway.
> 
> >- statfs(key_file) fails? Yes -> Check permissions.
> 
> I'm not familiar with this one, but I found a man page for statfs on my 
> linux server.  Unless FAT32 is represented by some cryptic name in the 
> following file types (MSDOS_SUPER_MAGIC perhaps?), I'm guessing statfs 
> fails on FAT32?

Not by design.  If it fails, it *might* be a bug in Cygwin.  Running
sshd under strace could give us a clue.

Corinna

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