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Subject:	Re: W2K and sshd, ssh - asks for password
Date:	Sat, 27 Jul 2002 21:46:01 +0100
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Max Bowsher wrote:
>> So, setting CYGWIN=tty via cygrunsrv is pointless?  Because
>> ssh-host-config does that.
> 
> It's not pointless but I don't see why it would be necessary.
> CYGWIN=tty is more or less assumed for any application that uses a
> pty, which should be any application that is started as a service
> which is intended to start interactive processes.  The only effect
> that would have is to associate a tty with non-interactive rsh or ssh
> sessions which would just serve to slow things down slightly with,
> IMO, no benefit.

Me, I'm just blindly following ssh-host-config's defaults.

Max.


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