X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:09:02 +0100 From: "John McNulty" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh password-less cmds to Windows 2003 don't return any output In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 21/06/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > Cygwin ssh (and basically all terminals except the Windows console) use > pipes to emulate ttys (so-called "ptys"). Some Windows applications don't > like these ptys and won't write data to them (and they will certainly not > detect them as a console, so any console-specific functions won't work > either). Hmm .. this is where it gets even more interesting. If I run: $ ssh user@W2003 date Wed Jun 21 18:02:13 GMTDT 2006 .. then I get a result. But other commands don't, e.g. $ ssh user@W2003 cat /etc/hosts $ ssh user@W2003 ls > On Windows 2003, SYSTEM does not have the appropriate privileges to switch > user contexts, so ssh-host-config needs to create an account that does. > Read for > details. Before running ssh-host-config I did: - Right click My Computer, Properties > Advanced > Environment Variables - Under System Variables, click New, add CYGWIN as the variable name, add ntsec as the variable value - Under System Variables, scroll down to Path, click Edit, add ;c:\cygwin\bin to the end of the string already in the field Then opened Cygwin on the desktop, ran ssh-host-config and entered: "Privilege Separation?" Yes "Create local user SSHd?" Yes "Install SSHd as a service?" Yes "CYGWIN = " enter ntsec Should I have done anything different there on W2003 ? Regards, John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/