rsync --password-file on cygwin

[diburim]

set CYGWIN=NTEA NTSEC
or
set RSYNC_PASSWORD=pass
some times fail on
"Out of environment space"
increasing the default environment space for all MS-DOS programs running in
Windows not
allways help.

There was a patch form: Ville Herva (vherva at ENIGMA.viasys.com) some time ago

>From: Ville Herva (vherva at ENIGMA.viasys.com)
>Subject: [PATCH] rsync on cygwin - textmode config files
>Newsgroups: mailing.unix.rsync
>View this article only
>Date: 2002-02-19 22:29:15 PST
>...
>   (3) Third, under CYGWIN, it makes little sense to force attribute check
on
>       the password file. It can be made to work if env var CYGWIN contains
>       "ntea" (nt extended attribute mode -- CYGWIN emulates unix
permissions
>       through a hack), but frankly, it is a MAJOR pain in the ass to get
>       working especially when trying to run rsync as a NT service.
Besides,
>       CYGWIN permissions won't give you any added security -- the security
>       should be handled with NTFS ACL's. So I added a #ifndef __CYGWIN__'s
>...
...
>From: Martin Pool (mbp at samba.org)
>Subject: Re: [PATCH] rsync on cygwin - textmode config files
>Newsgroups: mailing.unix.rsync
>View this article only
>Date: 2002-03-26 04:52:54 PST
>
>Thanks, this will be merged in 2.6.  Please let me know if anything
>further is required.
>
>--
>Martin

The path is for 2.5.2 did some on try it agist 2.5.5 ?

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