OpenSSH 5.1: call for testing

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul 17 07:39, Damien Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > Ping?
> 
> This will be post-5.1.

Too bad.  That means that 5.1 will not run on Cygwin 1.7 without local
patch.

> This will be post-5.1. Could you file is as a bug so it doesn't get lost?

Ok, will do.

What about my question:

> > > Another question is this:  The has_capability function requests Cygwin
> > > version information to figure out if specific features are available.
> > > The newest of the requested capabilities exists since Cygwin 1.5.0,
> > > which has been release in 2003, five years ago.  Older versions of
> > > Cygwin are long out of support.  That's why I would like to ask, if it
> > > isn't time to drop the whole has_capability() function as well as the
> > > check_nt_auth() function and to remove calling this Cygwin-specific
> > > function throughout OpenSSH.  Right now it's called in auth1.c,
> > > auth2-pubkey.c, auth2-passwd.c, auth2-none.c and auth2-kbdint.c.
> > > That's a lot of #ifdef HAVE_CYGWIN which could go away :)

Is that also ok for post-5.1?


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat