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Re: rcp, rsh don't work on Vista?


On Thu, 31 May 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 04:22:56PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >On Thu, 31 May 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> >
> >> TITTTL'd
> >>
> >> Dave Korn wrote:
> >> >   We need a new description for the specially vicious and malign kind of
> >> > http://cygwin.com/acronyms#3PP who not only installs cygwin1.dll in the
> >> > systemroot, but then goes to the extra lengths of hiding it as well.
> >> >
> >> >   Maybe we could call them 3PP++ ;-)
> >>
> >> Not that I don't like 3PP++ also, but I vote for EV3PP (EV = Extra
> >> Vicious).
> >
> >The extra viciousness comes from Windows, which, by default, hides the
> >contents of SYSTEMROOT...  Much as we'd like to blame 3PPs, this one is
> >not their fault. :-)
>
> There have been a couple reports now of 3PA's actually doing a
> "chmod +H cygwin1.dll", though, I believe.

Right, just re-read the full thread...  Sorry for the confusion.

3PSPs, then ("S" for "sneaky").
	Igor
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