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Re: Recent security improvements breaks proftpd
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>
- Cc: Cygwin-Developers <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:06:56 -0400
- Subject: Re: Recent security improvements breaks proftpd
- References: <20030918130700.GD1204@tishler.net>
- Reply-to: Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org
Jason Tishler wrote:
>
> Pierre,
>
> The following change breaks proftpd:
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2003-q3/msg00237.html
>
> By "breaks", I mean the following failure occurs when a user attempts
> to authenticate:
>
> C:\Cygwin\usr\sbin\proftpd.exe: *** CreateFileMapping, Win32 error 5. Terminating.
>
> I was able to workaround and isolate the problem with the attached
> "patch" -- that is reverting to the old behavior.
>
> Any ideas on how to fix the problem correctly?
Jason,
This is unexpected. Will look into it.
A few questions:
- can you provide a trace?
- if not:
what's the date of your cygwin?
what kind of user are you authenticating?
anything special needs to be done in proftp to reproduce?
Thanks.
Pierre