Re: ssh-host-config suggestion (was: Re: Updated: OpenSSH-3.5p1-1)

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:49:57PM +0100, Ralf Fassel wrote:
> - the ssh-host-config script should make sure that CYGWIN contains
>   `ntsec' when trying the chmod/chown steps

That shouldn't be necessary anymore since 1.3.14 sets ntsec by default
on NT systems.

> - could `chown' be modified to complain if it fails to do the work it
>   was supposed to do?  It seems that the exit status is 0, and besides
>   that the script simply does not care about the exit status of chown.

Tricky.  The problem (and the reason the script doesn't test the return
code) is, there are several conditions for having a working chown.  It
must be NT/2K/XP, ntsec must be on, FS must be NTFS.  The chown(2) syscall
returns intentionally always 0 if any of these conditions isn't met.

There could be an additional test in the script after calling chown,
though...

Corinna

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