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 Message-ID: <006801c235b0$922cc900$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> From: "Max Bowsher" To: References: <20020724163138.F3921@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20020724201757.GC21112@redhat.com> <00da01c2336a$b940b210$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> <20020725112023.B14134@cygbert.vinschen.de> <5.1.0.14.2.20020726182759.01f8f700@pop3.cris.com> <20020727105641.N3921@cygbert.vinschen.de> <013101c23570$9ce52f30$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> <20020727161055.GG16216@redhat.com> Subject: Re: W2K and sshd, ssh - asks for password Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 21:46:01 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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. -- 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/