Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:04:43 -0400 From: Chris Faylor To: ssiddiqi@ipass.net Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: FW: Description of the new 'ntsec' feature Message-ID: <19990819000442.B9980@cygnus.com> Reply-To: "Cygwin@Sourceware. Cygnus. Com" Mail-Followup-To: ssiddiqi@ipass.net, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Suhaib M. Siddiqi on Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 09:20:36PM -0400 On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 09:20:36PM -0400, Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote: >> > [...] >> > It would help to know exactly when these features were added to the >> > snapshots. I grabbed 990815 since it was the latest, but many programs >> > (vim, etc.) just core dump with it. (I'm running NT4 SP5.) >> > [...] >> >> It's part of the snapshots since 25-May. If you think that the ntsec >> feature is the reason for the core dumps you have two choices: >> >> - Send me an strace >> - set CYGWIN=nontsec > >In my hands NTSEC had been very annoying. I get all the time those >pinfo_proc kill at 1000 blah blah. > >I did not understand the philosophy behind NTSEC. Cygwin is a >development tool not a multiuser UNIX login system, thus I am not sure >implementing all the UNIX traditional security features would be >helpfull for development tools. The philosophy was that we could get real ownership and real executable bits and real UNIX permissions. I also thought it would be nice to have a multi-user NT system where people couldn't routinely kill each others' processes. I asked Corinna for this and she spent a lot of time on it. I can understand why you don't want to use it. Just turn if off. If you still are having problems then they're probably not due to ntsec. There's probably a bug in cygwin from something *I've* done. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com