Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:56:41 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: W2K and sshd, ssh - asks for password Message-ID: <20020727105641.N3921@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20020724163138.F3921@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20020724201757.GC21112@redhat.com> <00da01c2336a$b940b210$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> <20020725112023.B14134@cygbert.vinschen.de> <5.1.0.14.2.20020726182759.01f8f700@pop3.cris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020726182759.01f8f700@pop3.cris.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:32:59PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > You should be aware that certain keywords in the CYGWIN variable, among > them "ntsec," are only examined when the Cygwin1.dll initially loads (i.e., > every time a Cygwin application starts up and the Cygwin1.dll shared > library was not already loaded; that can occur any number of times between > reboots or logins). > > In particular this means that no Cygwin code or script can meaningfully set > the "ntsec" keyword in the CYGWIN variable--it must be supplied by the > Windows environment. The usual way of doing this is to use the System > control panel's Environment setting function. That's not right. It only holds for some of the CYGWIN settings as tty vs. notty which would be somewhat problematic. E. g. a nontsec application can start a ntsec app and vice versa. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/