From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Updated: Cygwin 1.7.34-6
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:13:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150205150644.GW2635@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150204134649.GA32055@calimero.vinschen.de>
On Feb 4 14:46, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Cygwin friends and users,
>
>
> At long last, I just released the first non-test version of Cygwin
> 1.7.34.
>
> Note: The version number is 1.7.34-6 to allow automatic updating from
> the last 1.7.34-005 test release with new setup versions.
> See https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-02/msg00008.html
>
> 1.7.34 contains a couple of really big changes, which *may* be
> disruptive. That's why we had this long test phase and why I asked
> you to run the test release. You didn't test? Oh, too bad.
>
> The major changes in this new release are
>
> - the new method to read account information (passwd and group) from the
> Windows user databases directly, without the requirement to generate
> /etc/passwd and /etc/group files to generate Unix-like uid and gid.
>
> See https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html
>
> - the fixes in POSIX ACL handling and the effect this has on the standard
> POSIX group permissions, as well as the accompanying new setfacl(1)
> options -b/--remove-all and -k/--remove-default.
>
> See https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#setfacl
> and https://cygwin.com/faq.faq.html#faq.using.ssh-pubkey-stops-working
> and https://cygwin.com/faq.faq.html#faq.using.same-with-rhosts
The FAQ links are broken, sorry!
The real links are
https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.ssh-pubkey-stops-working
and https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.same-with-rhosts
Again, sorry and HTH,
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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