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Re: key permission problem $CYGWIN=ntea, OPENSSH


"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> 
> >Is your disk NTFS?  If not, you are not able to take advantage of several
> >features like ntea and ntsec (the latter is what you should be using anyways).
> 
> This is not quite right.  I'll direct you both to
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-filemodes.html
> 
> which explains the use of ntea.  If Robert's partition is NTFS though,
> John's quite right to recommend the use of the ntsec option instead.
> And if Robert's using Win9x, then it doesn't matter what option he sets.

I stand [mostly] corrected.  I suspect it is likely that ssh is NOT complaining 
when there is no 'ntea' set mostly because someone patched it to disable the
option 'StrictModes' when 'ntea' is not present.  As the joke goes "then don't
do that..."

John

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