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RE: XDM now working on cygwin to manage remote displays
- From: Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:43:17 +0100
- Subject: RE: XDM now working on cygwin to manage remote displays
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> Work remains to to fix authFile (change the colon character to
> something storeable on the NTFS filesystem) and to add
> ntsec setuid code to permit non-setuid-privilened user
> authentications.
With the new (experimental) 1.5 cygwin dll its now possible to have a cygwin
"managed" mount which allows special characters and names (like a colon for
instance).
see <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg00248.html>
As CGF as said its not quite ready for prime time yet but it might help you.
> Michael Grigoni
> Cybertheque Museum
>