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Re: XDM now working on cygwin to manage remote displays


On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:43:17AM +0100, Vince Hoffman wrote:
>
> 
>> 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.

The implementation in 1.5.0 is broken.  The last cygwin snapshot should
be better.

I only recommend this for empty directories or directories/files created
after a mount.  The potential for confusion is too great otherwise.

cgf


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