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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:49:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> >
> > > To me it's just not natural to think of having ntsec without smbntsec. I
> > > forget what, if any, issues might have been involved. I can't think of a
> > > situation where you'd want Cygwin to honor ntsec but not honor smbntsec...
> >
> > When the SMB server doesn't reflect the permissions correctly,
>
> IMHO then that problem should be corrected.

Not always possible.

> > or when the owner user on the remote end isn't accessible via Windows (e.g.,
> > mounting a DFS filesystem via SMB).
>
> How often does that happen?

Don't know.  It did happen to me, hence my use of nosmbntsec...
	Igor
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