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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:22:33 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Future ntsec-detection problem in sshd (Re: winsup/cygwin ChangeLog security.cc)
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 09:09:16PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > CVS Log message:
> > * security.cc (allow_ntsec): Default to on.
> 
> A good idea, but I just want to mention a problem that will eventually arise
> with sshd.
> 
> It currently checks whether ntsec is enabled by examining the CYGWIN environment
> variable. This means that if ntsec is defaulted to on, without ntsec appearing
> in the CYGWIN env var, that code now requires reworking. The location of this
> now-problematic code in ssh is check_nt_auth in file
> openbsd-compat/bsd-cygwin_util.c.

Thanks for the heads up.  I have to add a version check then.

Corinna

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