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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:27:33 +0200
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Victor Wagner schrieb:
> BTW, concerning cygwin users. Do you know of anybody working on
> cygwin-specific sshd patches?

Yes, Corinna Vinschen is.

> We use cygwin sshd on our win32 build macines, because we need
> to have compatible agent forwarding on all systems and are dissatisfied
> with kind of win32 console session it gives.
>
> For instance changes in the environment, made though control panel, do
> not affect any newly created session unless sshd is restarted.
> User specific settings, made via control panel are not applied at all.

Interesting idea. Normally you would send a kill -1 signal to sshd to 
re-read the configuration, even if it's the registry where it reads the 
changed ENV vars.
I forwarded it to the cygwin list.

> Microsoft telnetd does much better job.
>
> But what makes me wonder  there is no attempt in the sshd code to use
> win32 specific way to create user session.

There is. All this is hidden in the cygwin1.dll
There is scary pure win32 code to manage user sessions.
-- 
Reini Urban


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