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Re: ssh-agent, ntsec, and tmp permissions
- To: "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." <reagle at w3 dot org>
- Subject: Re: ssh-agent, ntsec, and tmp permissions
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:46:34 +0200
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
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- Reply-To: cygwin <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
"Joseph M. Reagle Jr." wrote:
>
> At 16:37 7/25/2000 -0400, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
> >> >Try to enable ntsec cygwin feature.
> >>
> >> hrmm... the documentation says it should be on default, but I guess it
> >> isn't. It doesn't even say how to enable it, I presume ntsec=yes in my
> >> .bashrc?
> >
> >export CYGWIN=$CYGWIN ntsec
>
> I'm having difficulty geting ssh-agent to work -- I believe it is an ntsec
> issue. I've enabled ntsec and have the ability to chown and chmod. When I
> instantiate ssh-agent it creates /tmp/ssh-reagle but fails to write a PID.
>
> By deafult I get a ssh-agent exit of "bind: permission denied error"
>
> If I:
> chmod 1777 /tmp
> chmod 1777 /ssh-reagle
> I get a bad modes error on /tmp/ssh-reagle
>
> If I:
> chmod 1777 /tmp
> chmod 1700 /tmp/ssh-reagle
> I get a ssh-agent exit of "bind: permission denied error" (nor can I cd into
> ssh-reagle ...?)
You are not using OpenSSH, do you? AFAICS, the naming of the
tmp subdirectories follows another scheme.
I have just tried ssh-agent from OpenSSH and I had no problems.
I'm using ntsec on W2K.
If you want to try OpenSSH you can find it in
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Vinschen_Corinna/V1.1.1
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company
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