BUG: ssh-host-config --yes fails with cygwin 1.7.33

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Nov 6 16:39:00 GMT 2014


On Nov  6 13:33, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 05 2014, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Nov  5 14:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> On Nov  5 10:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> > On Nov  4 19:48, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> >> > > 
> >> > > This is fixed with cygwin-1.7.33-0.4.
> >> > > 
> >> > > However, the warning in the beginning still remains.
> >> > 
> >> > Please discuss stuff like this on the cygwin AT cygwin DOT com mailing
> >> > list.  cygwin-apps is a mailing list for maintainers only.  Thank you.
> >> > 
> >> > Having said that, yeah, this warning is fallout from the fact that the
> >> > csih helper script used by ssh-host-config is exclusively working with
> >> > /etc/passwd and /etc/group files [...etc...]
> >> 
> >> No, it's not.  This is in fact from ssh-host-config which still
> >> checks for groups in /etc/group.  I had already tweaked the script
> >> but apparently forgotten this one.
> >> 
> >> I attached a new ssh-host-config to this mail for testing.  Please
> >> give it a try.
> >
> > No, use this one instead.  I used a simpler method to list the groups.
> 
> The warning is still displayed despite mintty being run as
> administrator. It now lists more groups,:
> [...]
> It still tests for id 544, which seems to have changed to 545:

No, it changed to 0, due to the "root" entry in /etc/group.  I suggest
to remove this.  It doesn't make sense anyway.


Corinna

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