* faq-setup.xml: Document how Cygwin secures installation and
update against man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. Note that
setup embeds a public key to check the signature of setup.ini,
and that setup.ini includes SHA-512 cryptographic hashes.
Signed-off-by: David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
sourceware.org URLs are concerned.
* Throughout, simplify ulink expressions if the visible text is the
URL anyway.
* faq-programming.xml (faq.programming.dll-relocatable): Remove.
* faq-setup.xml (faq.setup.name-with-space): Change for 1.7.34.
(faq.setup.home): Ditto.
* faq-using.xml (faq.using.printing): Clarify old links and availability
of a2ps and file.
(faq.using.xemacs): Drop outdated version info and pointers to native
XEmacs.
(faq.using.ntemacs): Remove.
* faq-what.xml (faq.what.what): Rephrase to reflect reality.
(faq.what.supported): Ditto.
(faq.what.who): Rephrase slightly.
* legal.xml: Bump copyright.
* setup-net.xml (internet-setup): Fix references to setup executables.
* new-features.xml: (ov-new1.7.32): Add new section.
* ntsec.xml: Rename top-level section to reflect extension of topics.
Remove old /etc/passwd, /etc/group considerations. Add new sections
explaining Windows to POSIX account mapping. Make setuid sections
third level sections.
* pathnames.xml: Note new method of account mapping for fstab.d/$USER.
* faq-setup.xml: Rework references to /etc/passwd and /etc/group to
reflect changes to account handling.
* faq-using.xml: Ditto.
instead.
(faq.setup.cli): Reproduce latest --help output.
(faq.setup.noroot): New section.
(faq.setup.setup-fails-on-ts): Remove section.
* setup-net.xml (internet-setup): Mention setup-x86{_64} in first
paragraph. Add note to allow using setup.exe in subsequent paragraphs.
Add paragraph to introduce --no-admin option.
effect is to move away from DocBook SGML and DJ Delorie's doctool and
toward pure DocBook XSL. (There remains just one use of doctool, and
we have plans for replacing it, too.) See ChangeLog for details.
* faq-using.xml (faq.using.directory-structure): Align example to
latest mount output.
* pathnames.sgml (mount-table): Add note about upgrade helper scripts
to create /etc/fstab and /etc/fstab.f/${USER}.
console character set setting.
* faq: Throughout, change references to User's Guide to references
to 1.7 User's Guide temporarily.
* faq-setup.html (faq.using.unicode): Rephrase slightly.
(faq.using.weirdchars): New FAQ entry for console charset problems.
cygserver and its relation to the "Bad system call" error.
* faq-setup.xml (faq.setup.uninstall-all): Mention postgresql.
* overview2.sgml: Update security info on shared memory.
list of packages required for building and exact check instructions.
* faq-setup.xml (faq.setup.uninstall-service): New instructions
on uninstalling a cygwin service.
(faq.setup.uninstall-all): Reference new service uninstall FAQ.
Corinna Vinschen
David A. Wheeler
Christopher Faylor
Warren Young
Andy Koppe
Dave Korn
Joshua Daniel Franklin