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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] EOL for Windows 95/86/Me
On Feb 14 13:11, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Feb 14 10:22, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> >>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>Exciting new stuff so far (IMHO):
> >>>[snip]
> >>>- New setuid method which allows to logon without password and being
> >>> recognized correctly also by native Windows applications
> >>Does this mean ssh might *finally* work right with password-less login?
> >>:-)
> >
> >[snip] And in the long run you will have to reboot
> >your machine each time you install a new Cygwin release when using this
> >feature.
>
> That's a fairly major bummer. Is that because this is something that
> depends on cygwin.dll and can't be unloaded, or...?
Authentication DLLs can't be replaced without reboot in Windows for
security reasons.
Corinna
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