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cygwin provides a Unix/Linux-like environment under Microsoft Windows OSes.

What it doesn't provide is "a way to run native Linux apps on Windows. You must rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows."

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Cygwin: how do I disable /cygdrive

I'm using a cygwin based SSHD server and I want to disable the /cygdrive/c and /cygdrive/d paths; is this possible? Using NTFS ACLs to achieve this will be a mess because the user will need access to the drive with the SSH daemon on it so I can't…
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cygwin help: Xlib: connection to "ip:0.0" refused by server

I followed cygwin user guide as below: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-apps.html on windows xp, i started Cygwin/X->XWin server, EXPORT DISPLAY=:0.0 ssh -Y user@ip i saw below warning Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication…
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Cygwin shell is overriding my Windows shell

I'm not sure what I did, but I've somehow got Cygwin installed in such a way that even when I try to run an ordinary windows shell, Cygwin is interfering. I have batch scripts that I want to run in the default windows way that Cygwin complains…
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Best way to have full Python install under cygwin/XP?

Pythons installed under WinXP have dirs like DLLs, DOC, include, etc. but python (2.5) installed with cygwin is a bare python.exe. My motivation for asking is that 'things' under XP don't seem to be finding 'other things' under cygwin and vice…
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Cygwin creates files with special (shared) icons on windows

I use cygwin to transfer files between linux and windows machines. Everytime I transfer a file to a windows machine it adds an extra shared user icon on the file's or folder's icon itself. This also happens if I create a file from cygwin on windows…
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Folder default ACLs not inherited when new file is created

I'm a bit of a beginner with Unix systems, but I'm running Cygwin on my Windows Server, and I am trying to figure out something related to extended ACLs. I have a directory to which I set the following ACLs: Administrator@MyServer ~ $ setfacl -m…
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Fabric and cygwin don't work with windows UNC paths

I have some strange problems with fabric deployment to Windows Server 2008r2. The thing I try to accomplish is to copy some files to a shared folder with a fabric script (this script does a lot of other things too, but only this step gives me…
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Dropped Connection when trying to SSH from Cygwin to Ubuntu Server

From a Windows Vista client using Cygwin, I am not be able to ssh to a Ubuntu server. I have two other clients (one Vista and one Windows 7) which can SSH to the server. All three are using Cygwin. Here are the logs from both sides for the same…
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svnstat script

So I'm building out a shell script to check out all of our relevant svn repositories for analysis in svnstat. I've gotten all of this to work manually, now I'm writing up a bash script in cygwin on my Vista laptop, as I intend to move this to a…
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Getting: "rsync: could not open password file" in cygwin

Running in cygwin rsync -vrtz --password-file=c:\cygwin\secret --delete /cygdrive/d/Data user@xx.xx.xx.xx::modulename But getting rsync: could not open password file c:cygwinsecret: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: syntax or usage error…
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Rync connection problems from Windows to CentOS

Trying to connect to rsync on CentOS from Cygwin on Windows 7 but getting the following errors: $ rsync -vrtz -vvv --password-file=c:\cygwin\secret --delete /cygdrive/d/Data username@xx.xx.xx.xx::modulename opening tcp connection to xx.xx.xx.xx…
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How to fix "SignTool Error: IStore2::Load returned error: 0x80090345"

I have a Jenkins job running the signtool utility on a remote node, the console log looks like so: Started by user anonymous Building remotely on vm-builder [VE] $ cmd /c call "C:\Documents and…
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Cygwin: Run SSH.exe (without cygwin.bat) with a keypair

I have a box I'm trying to create an SSH tunnel to using a keypair without a password. If I run cygwin.exe and generate a keypair without a password using ssh-keygen and put the public key on the server I can use ssh to create a tunnel between the…
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What could cause this ProFTPD directory listing error?

The error I get in Filezilla is "Cannot get directory listing". In Firefox it just keeps on loading and nothing happens. For both clients the same messages appear in proftpd.log. Computer - error setting write fd TCP_NOPUSH: Protocol not…
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How safe is it to run cygwin sshd on a windows 2003 domain controller

I have already installed cygwin (running sshd) on windows 2003 DC several times. But now another admin who is actually responsible for this domain asked my if this is really safe. Edit:: I changed the question to make it better fit the accepted…
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